September 25, 2018The Activist Files is a podcast by the Center for Constitutional Rights where we feature the stories of people on the front lines fighting for justice, including activists, lawyers, and artists. We...
January 1, 2018Thank you for funding the fight in 2018! We know that at the end of each year, your inbox is filled with calls from great organizations doing important work asking for your contribution to keep it...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon will join a panel discussion on the current state of the Guantanamo military commissions. The event is organized by the Center on National Security at Fordham...
Updated: February 5, 2019
March 2, 2017With the no-fly list’s processes already found unconstitutional, judges on the Second Circuit argued Wednesday over whether FBI agents who used it to pressure Muslims into becoming informants should...
October 16, 2018... But lead attorney Pam Spees of the Center for Constitutional Rights , who is working on the case with Misha Mitchell, an attorney with the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, doesn’t see the victory as...
Could Rosa Parks, who was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 for violating segregation laws by sitting in the white-only section of a bus and refusing to move, be considered a “homegrown...
Updated: January 11, 2010
On April 3, 2007, descendants of Japanese Americans interned during World War II filed the first of three amicus briefs in support of a Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appeal on behalf of Arab...
Update: shortly after the Center for Constitutional Rights filed the lawsuit on behalf of Tufaic, the U.S. State Department gave his wife, Alshaibah, a visa. The family was reunited in November 2019...
Updated: January 24, 2020
December 14, 2017...In a recent study on the mental health consequences of solitary confinement, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Stanford University’s Mental Health Lab concluded that solitary confinement...
July 14, 2026Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University protester who became the face of President Trump’s campus crackdown, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing administration officials, pro-Israel groups and a...
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