January 3, 2026, New York – In response to the aggression by the United States against Venezuela this morning, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The Trump...
Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei and Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain for a discussion about their legal and political advocacy for the victims of the so-called U.S. "war on...
Updated: March 31, 2015
Without Due Process, Detainees Face Detention for Life, Lawyers Warn D ecember 11, 2019, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights urged a federal appeals court to...
CCR has proudly stood up for LGBTQI people and communities for decades, and we’re very excited that this year for the first time we will be marching as an official contingent in the annual NYC Pride...
Updated: June 26, 2015
June 14, 2016...Baher Azmy, lead counsel in a lawsuit brought on behalf of Muslims plaintiffs in New Jersey who are suing the NYPD over the surveillance program, said that even if Trump wanted to resurrect the...
Join us on Tuesday , January 30, 2024 , from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for a panel discussion investigating how movement lawyers and community advocates collaborated to address NYPD racial profiling in Floyd...
Updated: December 18, 2023
April 4, 2011, New York and Washington – Today, the Supreme Court announced it will not hear three of the Guantánamo detainee cases it had been asked to review and delayed a decision on...
This year's Bertha Justice Conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer by profiling global and domestic models of "movement lawyering"--lawyers and organizers working...
Updated: May 13, 2014
On November 9, 2021, on behalf of The Descendants Project, an organization founded to advocate for descendants of people once enslaved in Louisiana’s river parishes, the Center for Constitutional...
Updated: April 2, 2025
Join CCR at Creating Change 2014, The National Conference on LGBT Equality and the largest gathering of activists, organizers and leaders in the LGBT movement. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pamela Spees...
Updated: January 29, 2014
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