August 7, 2015The chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), who was involved in firing Professor Steven Salaita over tweets he sent about Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza, has announced her...
April 3, 2014, New York – In response to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s vote to declassify part s of a report that details and condemns the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, the...
August 21, 2018... One wouldn’t expect an organization committed to protecting constitutional rights to be as optimistic as the Center for Constitutional Rights is. The Supreme Court Term was a disaster in both...
June 10, 2016Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday, protesting a new pro-Israel policy that legal groups warn is “McCarthyite” and unconstitutional . Cuomo...
This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post on May 12, 2010. May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that...
Updated: June 23, 2010
May 24, 2021New York State Legislature introduces “Dignity Not Detention Act” to end ICE detention The New York State Senate and Assembly introduced the Dignity Not Detention Act Monday, a bill that would end...
Gonzalez Morales v. Gillis is a federal lawsuit against facility warden Shawn Gillis and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on behalf of four medically vulnerable people currently...
Updated: December 3, 2020
CLINIC v. Rubio — Organizations and individuals are suing to enforce the law and make sure that the State Department follows federal immigration law as passed by Congress, and returns to processing...
Updated: February 17, 2026
Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue this is...
Updated: June 23, 2010
Position Summary : The Advocacy Associate provides administrative support for the Center for Constitutional Rights’ Advocacy department, and assists with research and writing on advocacy priorities...
Updated: December 6, 2019
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