August 2010By Glenn Greenwald A major legal challenge to one of the Obama administration's most radical assertions of executive power began this morning in a federal courthouse in Washington, DC. Early last...
Staff attorneys conduct litigation and other forms of legal advocacy around existing Center for Constitutional Rights cases – and develop new, creative litigation and advocacy – in our issue areas,...
Updated: April 9, 2024
CCR and its partners – including Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, the National Lawyers Guild, Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus, and others – submitted a letter to over 140...
Updated: November 10, 2014
In the wake of the recent attempted attack on Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight 253, several elected officials have renewed their politicized claims that closing the prison at Guantánamo...
Since its occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem following the 1967 war, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has destroyed more than 18,000 Palestinian homes in the Occupied...
Updated: January 24, 2011
May 6, 2021, Lafayette, LA – Today, a federal judge allowed a challenge to an anti-protest pipeline law to proceed against a Louisiana District Attorney and sheriff. Activists and a journalist who...
May 6, 2021, Lafayette, LA – Today, a federal judge allowed a challenge to an anti-protest pipeline law to proceed against a Louisiana District Attorney and sheriff. Activists and a journalist who...
Court Monitor Cannot Accurately Assess NYPD Policy Changes Without Hearing from Impacted People July 29, 2021, New York – Today, community organizations, attorneys behind the class-action lawsuits...
Nkwalini The rural Zulu community of Nkwalini has been struggling against a neighboring farmer who is claiming that the land they have lived on for generations belongs to him. CCR met with Nkwalini...
Updated: January 14, 2015
Watch the full day of panels on YouTube , or as a free download from iTunes U . The day-long event looked at how Copelon's work helped to define and shape the field of international women's human...
Updated: September 28, 2017
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