Victory! On December 10, 2020, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in our favor , upholding our clients' right to sue federal officials for damages under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA...
Updated: December 11, 2020
Photo of plaintiff Naveed Shinwari taken by Lend Frison Naveed Shinwari is a lawful permanent resident who has lived in the United States since 1998, when he was just 14 years old. He currently lives...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Artwork by Shereen Masoud-Jointe "Solitary confinement has destroyed me...It was like a huge mountain that was on top of me. And the pressure on me was so high it squeezed tears out of my eyes...I...
Updated: April 4, 2022
These documents via the Freedom of Information Act were released to Austin Sanctuary Network, Free Migration Project, and Grassroots Leadership as part of ongoing litigation against ICE. The...
Updated: October 26, 2020
Recent years have seen our community and movement partners on the frontlines wracked by COVID-19, ongoing systemic anti-Black racism, accelerating climate disasters and growing authoritarian...
Updated: November 20, 2024
Artwork by Micah Bazant "This fight is not just my fight, it's our fight. My hope is that the future is brighter for people like me. I hope this lawsuit forever changes the way transgender people in...
Updated: January 19, 2023
President-elect Biden has been a supporter of closing the Guantánamo Bay prison since he was a senator. The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomes his support as president, and calls on him to...
Updated: January 18, 2022
Click here for link to PDF version of testimony. TESTIMONY OF DARIUS CHARNEY CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO THE NEW YORK CITY CIVILIAN COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD REGARDING THE NEW YORK POLICE...
Updated: January 16, 2021
On February 2, 2021, 111 organizations joined a letter led by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture to President Biden urging him to close the prison at...
Updated: September 8, 2021
On January 27, 2021, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and over 60 member organizations (including the Center for Constitutional Rights) released a coalition letter calling on the...
Updated: February 1, 2021
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