As President-elect Donald Trump’s victory and early Cabinet picks embolden white supremacists and threaten reproductive rights, Democracy Now spoke with Katherine Franke, CCR Board chair and director...
Updated: November 23, 2016
August 12, 2022...Ahead of the first regular review of the US record since 2014, rights advocates insisted the US government had never adequately addressed violations against black people during slavery and...
July 8, 2015Two years have passed since people confined in California's Pelican Bay State Prison initiated a 60-day hunger strike to protest the conditions associated with the prison's "security housing unit,"...
“This victory isn’t only for the three plaintiffs in this case against a corporation. This victory is a shining light for everyone who has been oppressed and a strong warning to any company or...
Updated: September 3, 2025
Karina Murrieta is a Senior Donor Relations Officer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works with the Development Director and Deputy Director of Development to support the department’s...
August 5, 2019We continue our fight to protect asylum rights In a decision late Monday , a federal district court rejected the Trump administration's second attempt to dismiss our lawsuit, Al Otro Lado v. Nielsen...
June 2012The kill list makes a mockery of due process by circumventing judicial review, and turning the executive into judge, jury and executioner. Even worse, the strikes described in the Times article, in...
A new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal has documented hundreds of cases of Palestinian rights activists in the United States being harassed, disciplined, fired, sued...
Updated: October 7, 2015
Trouble seeing the video? Watch on Democracy Now! University of Illinois trustees have voted to agree to a $875,000 financial settlement with Steven Salaita. Last year, his job offer for a tenured...
Updated: November 16, 2015
Still suffering effects of CIA abuse, Guled Duran is one of many stranded at Gitmo due to inaction by courts, Biden admin November 7, 2022, Washington, D.C. – A Somali man held without charge at...
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