CCR joined New York City-based advocates and community members on July 12, 2016 in a meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association , Maina...
Updated: October 26, 2016
October 26, 2016Did you know that throwing a rock through the window of a Whole Foods could be punished as a federal crime of terrorism? An Assistant United States Attorney admitted as much last year, when defending...
October 24, 2016Amid reports on federal monitoring of protesters, two prominent civil-rights groups filed a lawsuit demanding that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security cough up records on their surveillance...
In response to the election of Donald Trump, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We send love and solidarity to all those who are hurting and afraid that Donald Trump...
CCR and Palestine Legal provided a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in advance of his March 2017 report to the UN Human...
Updated: January 4, 2017
As Trump’s campaign promises become reality, the University of California (UC) Regents’ so-called “Intolerance Principles” put vulnerable students at risk for increased attacks, warned CCR and other...
Updated: November 22, 2016
November 29, 2016...Shane Kadidal, a senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights , said: “There are two baseline constitutional tenets that he manages to screw up in 140 characters.” Scalia was...
Join the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) for a screening of The Holy Land Five. This documentary, produced by Al-Jazeera, examines their case in scrupulous detail to reveal how...
Updated: December 21, 2016
December 9, 2016In June, surrounded by Jewish officials and leaders, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced: "If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you." To that end, he signed an executive order directing the...
December 22, 2016Late this fall, like others around the world, I began slowly gaining greater consciousness and awareness of the situation at Standing Rock. This growing awareness accelerated as millions “checked in...
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