June 11, 2012, New York – Today, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari to the cases of seven Guantánamo detainees who had petitioned the Court for review of...
Federal lawsuit challenging government-ordered extrajudicial killings in Bolivia
Updated: September 28, 2023
Background: From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...
Updated: May 30, 2017
Bill is Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a Katrina survivor and has been active in human rights in Haiti for years...
Updated: January 14, 2010
As part of a continuing effort to challenge bills that threaten core First Amendment-protected activity in support of Palestinian rights, CCR and other rights organizations have engaged in advocacy...
Updated: December 14, 2018
October 23, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
Michigan's emergency manager law is once again coming into question. Monday, lawyers announced they've filed an appeal to a federal lawsuit.
Updated: March 15, 2016
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
September 16, 2020...Al-Alaqi v. Panetta was a lawsuit filed in 2012 challenging the targeted drone killings by the United States of three U.S. citizens in Yemen. Although the U.S. government has carried out targeted...
May 20, 2019We demanded transparency on Puerto Rico's undemocratic federal fiscal control board [caption align="right"] [/caption] In January 2017, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with Latino Justice...
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