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: April 12, 2017
July 1, 2011, New York – Yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it will drop 99 out of 101 C.I.A. detainee torture cases that had been under preliminary review by Federal...
July 28, 2026, Philadelphia— For more than 44 years, U.S. citizen Mumia Abu-Jamal has been arbitrarily detained in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Today, Abolitionist Law Center and a national...
In July 2016, Color of Change (COC) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request seeking information from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
Updated: August 31, 2020
July 31, 2016The Talking Dog : Can you please tell us where were you on 11 Sept. 2001? Pardiss Kebriaei : I was in my third year at law school at the University of Pennsylvania. I was coming out of classes. There...
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon will speak at a virtual webinar organized by the Episcopal Church and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture to mark the...
Updated: January 11, 2022
Advocates Challenge the Application of ‘Unsafe’ Third Country Rule to Asylum Seekers Turned Back at Ports of Entry December 6, 2019, San Diego – Immigrant rights attorneys filed an emergency motion...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will speak about LGBTQIA persecution and criminalization on a panel discussion presented in conjunction with the opening of an art exhibit. Exhibit artists...
Updated: December 1, 2016
Status: Part time – 20 hours per week Location: In-office presence 1-2 days per week is preferred; eligible for fully remote on a case-by-case basis Background: The Center for Constitutional Rights...
Updated: September 23, 2026
Vincent Warren Accountability: No One’s Above the Law A Review of Obama’s First 100 Days Vince Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights University of Pittsburgh Law School...
Updated: March 26, 2009
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