June 5, 2024, New York – In response to President Biden’s executive order to shut down the border, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement: Lagging in the polls,...
January 19, 2017A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday refused to intervene to overturn a Defense Department decision to continue the detention of Algerian prisoner Sufyian...
February 17, 2011, New York, Geneva – Over one year after a group of 60 individuals petitioned United Nations officials to stop the desecration and destruction of an ancient Muslim cemetery in...
August 17, 2016Last Friday, August 12, marked the third anniversary of the historic ruling in Floyd v. City of New York , in which a federal court ruled the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional and...
April 3, 2010Today in New York City, the U.S. is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial.
Updated: April 5, 2010
June 14, 2010, New York – Today, the United States Supreme Court decided not to hear the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case on behalf of Canadian citizen Maher Arar against U.S...
Litigation seeks a permanent injunction to block rule from taking effect, and marks the 6th lawsuit to be filed across the nation August 27, 2019, New York – Community organizations filed a lawsuit...
April 27, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and its co-counsel asked the Supreme Court to take up the case against CACI and L-3 Services (formerly Titan), two...
CCR and nine other organizations sent a letter to Congress members on August 9, 2017, expressing opposition to the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, federal legislation that would amend existing law to ban...
Updated: December 14, 2018
October 26, 2010, New York, NY – The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional stops that disproportionately affects Black and Latino New Yorkers,...
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