August 26, 2015, New York – In response to the United Kingdom’s diplomatic protest of Ecuador’s continued provision of asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
August 25, 2015, New York – Yesterday evening, the court overseeing reforms to NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practicesin the landmark case Floyd v. City of New York approved two proposed policy reforms – on...
Still “Much Work to Be Done” August 7, 2015, New York – Today, the court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices submitted two reform policies – on racial...
August 3, 2015, New York – In response to the ruling by a federal judge today striking down Idaho’s “ag-gag” law, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: We applaud...
July 17,2015, New York – Today, on the one-year anniversary of the police killing of Eric Garner, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: One year after Eric Garner...
July 9, 2015, New York – Today, the court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms to the New York City Police Department’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices filed his first interim report on the...
July 8, 2015, New York – In response to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signing, today, of an executive order appointing a special prosecutor to investigate killings by police of unarmed civilians and with...
June 17, 2015, New York – Today, in a case brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) thirteen years ago, in April 2002, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated claims against...
June 13, 2015, New York – In response to the vote today by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to censure the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for its...
June 12, 2015, New York – Today, attorneys for four American Muslim men with no criminal records who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List by the FBI in retaliation for their refusal to become...