March 6, 2017Muslim ban 2.0 will meet the same resistance in the streets and in the courts. *Photo credit: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Community Asks Court for Temporary Restraining Order (St. James) Prominent African American authors, scholars and civil rights leaders sent a letter to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Sunday...
Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of punishing people who resist forced labor in Alabama’s majority-Black prisons November 20, 2024, Montgomery, AL – Yesterday, five incarcerated workers brought...
T he new filing in federal court comes after ICE said they would keep Mr. Khalil detained based on false allegations following a court ruling that detention on the Secretary of State’s say-so is...
February 23, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released a report on the current conditions in Camps 5, 6, and Echo following the press conference today of Adm. Patrick M...
September 27, 2016In the days after the 9/11 attacks, Congress was asked to give President Bush the authority to use the military “to deter and preempt any future acts of terrorism or aggression against the United...
On March 16, 2018, CCR and 28 organizations signed a joint letter to express concerns regarding the nomination of Gina Haspel for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and to ask the...
Updated: May 15, 2018
CCR and other organizations calling for human rights and for the rule of law in Palestine and Israel today sent a letter to academic institutions urging them to reaffirm their commitment to free and...
Updated: February 7, 2014
New York, June 3, 2009 – Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the District Court decision dismissing the Wiwa v. Shell plaintiffs’ claims against Shell Petroleum Development Company...
September 18, 2020, New York – Even as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has repeatedly sought emergency funding and threatened to furlough its employees in recent months, new...
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