On Tuesday, in an extremely troubling ruling in the District Court in Washington D.C., Judge John D. Bates dismissed a lawsuit contesting what is described as President Obama’s “targeted...
Location: The Staff Attorney, CCR South, must live and work in Jackson, Mississippi, with periodic onsite visits to the organization’s headquarters in New York City. This position is based in Jackson...
Updated: August 7, 2026
September 2, 2019We're suing to keep immigrant families together [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Tuesday, community organizations filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s cruel, racist, and patently...
September 14, 2017, New York – In response to the NYPD releasing the first-ever body camera footage of a fatal police shooting, of Miguel Richards in the Bronx on September 6, the Center for...
The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become. What no terrorist could do to us, our own leaders did. Out of fear of the possibility of a terrorist attack, authorities...
Updated: January 11, 2010
December 2013Ten Steps Bill de Blasio and Bill Bratton Should Take to Fix Stop-and-Frisk The road to police reform begins with community participation and a court-appointed monitor. David A. Harris December 20,...
Case to Be Heard by High Court This Spring February 5, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Today, Muslim men who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List in retaliation for refusing to spy on their communities...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a rare Phoenix-area appearance! CCR’s Senior Managing Attorney, Shayana Kadidal will speak on Civil Liberties vs. National Security: Policy and Reality...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Private Military and Security Companies: hired guns, profiting from war and conflict escalation, accountable to no one. And our governments are relying on them more and more. What can we do about it...
Updated: May 30, 2013
August 21, 2008, New Yor k – Late yesterday afternoon, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued urgent precautionary measures to protect Djamel Ameziane , an Algerian citizen held...
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