December 6, 2016On November 9, under a grey sky with light rain, I drove to federal court in Springfield, MA, to hear summary arguments in Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) vs. Scott Lively , a civil lawsuit in which...
December 8, 2016... In early 2008, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of four plaintiffs who claimed the city’s stop-and-frisk policies were racially biased. The case wound its way...
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 9, 2016Today marks the two-year anniversary of the release of the Senate Torture Report Executive Summary detailing some of the barbarity and brutality of the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation and detention...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will join a distinguished panel of organizers, advocates, and scholars to discuss an intersectional approach to the incoming Trump administration. This event is...
Updated: December 12, 2016
December 15, 2016... Another lawsuit, filed by Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights , is currently in pretrial litigation. In October 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit...
December 14, 2016...The nomination instantly provoked rebuke, with Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, telling AlterNet, "It is chilling that someone who oversaw, defended and...
December 16, 2016... CAIR will also present a Defender of Liberty award to the Center for Constitutional Rights . Protecting Muslims’ constitutional rights is a top priority for the organization, Hooper said, in...
December 20, 2016As I sat at my desk here in New York and learned that the original sacred fire had been extinguished at Oceti Sakowin, and a new one built , I thought about the time I spent there, at Standing Rock...
Case Scheduled Inauguration Week, Newly Urgent in Face of Trump Presidency December 19, 2016, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme...
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