September 13, 2017Last week, in Mexico City, a symbolically powerful blow was dealt to the United States’ notion of itself as a nation founded on the rule of law, which respects the rule of law and also respects human...
On February 7, 2019, Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani testified before the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council at a hearing on the disciplinary...
Updated: April 12, 2019
June 12, 2015Every day, federal officials are obligated to pay to hold 500 immigrants behind bars at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach to meet a contract with the for-profit prison, according to a...
May 11, 2012, Richmond, VA – Today, a federal appellate court dismissed the appeals of two private military contractors who had argued they were immune from litigation when they engage in...
Join us on November 30th at 5:00 p.m. ET for the third event in a four part series by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Haymarket Books marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11. In “...
Updated: November 18, 2021
October 9, 2020... The legal battle started in 2013 when CLEAR , an advocacy initiative at the City University of New York (CUNY), sued the federal government on behalf of Tanvir. Soon after the Center for...
June 1, 2022We are proud to present the next installment in By Design, our Spring/Summer 2022 Freedom Flicks Film Series
September 23, 2009, New York – In response to news the Attorney General is establishing new policy on the question of the use of the state secrets privilege, the Center for Constitutional...
Read the complete letter. CCR writes to ask you to prevent the execution of Troy Anthony Davis. Capital punishment, as it is applied in the United States, is expensive, racist, arbitrary, fallible...
March 17, 2016This past February, President Obama delivered his official Guantanamo Bay closure plan to Congress, seven years after he first issued an executive order to close the detention center. If the plan is...
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