Litigation seeks a permanent injunction to block rule from taking effect, and marks the 6th lawsuit to be filed across the nation August 27, 2019, New York – Community organizations filed a lawsuit...
This year’s cohort will join the Legal, Communications, and Executive Departments June 5, 2019, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomed 16 summer interns to its offices this week...
Movement lawyering is focus of fellowship December 6, 2018, New York – Four Bertha Justice Fellows will be spending the next two years at the Center for Constitutional Rights getting first-hand...
May 11, 2016, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights is sad to release the following statement on the occasion of the passing of the Center’s president emeritus Michael Ratner: From Attica...
November 23, 2015 – On the anniversary of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killing by police in Cleveland, a coalition of law students, legal workers and attorneys known as Law for Black Lives issued the...
June 23, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement by Senior Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei in response to the release of the Department of...
April 21, 2014, New York – In response to the ruling today by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ordering the government to release a Justice Department legal memo justifying the “...
April 4, 2014, Washington – A federal district court today dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the targeted killing of three American citizens by U.S. drones in Yemen in...
March 27, 2014 - Today, the UN Human Rights Committee issued highly critical concluding observations on the United States’ compliance with international human rights requirements. CCR had...
February 28, 2014, New York – In response to news that the Obama Administration is debating whether to authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen terrorism suspect in Pakistan, whose name,...
