Democracy Now! speaks with Judge Shira Scheindlin, former United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, about her role CCR's case Floyd v. City of New York , which found the...
Updated: December 28, 2017
January 19, 2018Ahmer Abbasi came to the Unites States from Pakistan on a visitor visa in 1993. After he arrived, he applied for political asylum, and remained in the country after his visa was denied. Two weeks...
January 30, 2018, New York – In response to the announcement by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner James O’Neill that the New York City Police Department will be speeding up the expansion of its...
January 30, 2018...Opponents of the new timetable were quick to criticize it. "The NYPD decision today seems extremely premature," said Darius Charney, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional...
February 5, 2018, New York –Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a letter to the New York City Council Committee on...
Please join CCR and partners for Refest 2.0 , CultureHub's annual festival, which brings together artists, activists, and technologists to explore technology's role in shaping our future. In this "un...
Updated: March 7, 2018
Please join CCR and partners in court as Angelo Guisado and Britney Wilson argue in Furlow v Belmar , a case pending in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, that...
Updated: February 27, 2018
March 12, 2018...The use of body-worn cameras by police has its origins in a 2013 ruling in a class-action lawsuit in which a U.S. District judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, found the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policies were...
March 3, 2018The release of documents obtained through a public records request this week underscored conservationists’ suspicion of a close relationship between a pipeline company and government officials. The...
March 7, 2018The first oral arguments in a case against St. Louis County’s system of “wanteds” took place on February 28, and the constitutional challenge by ArchCity Defenders, co-counsel Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,...
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