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There Is No One More Unqualified to Be Attorney General Than Sessions, Says CCR Executive Director

January 9, 2017

January 9, 2016, New York – In advance of the Senate confirmation hearing scheduled tomorrow for Senator Jefferson Sessions as United States Attorney General, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...

Civil Rights Attorneys Who Took NYPD to Court & Won Slam Rep. Peter King on Muslim Surveillance Advice to President-elect After Trump Audience

December 15, 2016

December 15, 2016, New York – Today, attorneys from Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights slammed extremist Representative Peter King for his call to nationalize the fully...

Private Prison Corporations Cannot Stop Release of Government Documents, Attorneys Argue

November 29, 2016

Rights Groups Move to Stop Private Corporations from Intervening in Freedom of Information Lawsuit November 29, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Detention Watch...

CCR Legal Director: Japanese Internment, Muslim Registration Undermine Most Basic Constitutional Values

November 17, 2016

“Not Just Locker Room Talk” November 17, 2016, New York – In response to statements made last night by a surrogate for Donald Trump effectively endorsing Japanese internment, Center for...

Human Rights Attorneys Sue FBI, DHS for Docs about Surveillance of the Movement for Black Lives

October 20, 2016

October 20, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law (“Case Western Reserve”)...

DHS Must Sever Ties with Toxic Private Prison Companies

September 2, 2016

Recent move by Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group reveal further proof of the private prison industry’s culture of secrecy Today, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO...

Court Rules for Prisoners in Challenge to Secretive Federal Prison Units

August 19, 2016

Decision Reinstates Lawsuit Over Communications Management Units August 19, 2016, Washington, D.C. – Today, the D.C. Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP)...

DOJ to End Use of Private Prisons: CCR Says DHS and ICE Must Do the Same

August 18, 2016

August 18, 2016, New York – In response to the news that the Department of Justice will cease to use private prisons, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: CCR welcomes...

American Muslims Who Refused to Become FBI Informants File Appeal Over No-Fly List

July 29, 2016

July 29, 2016 – New York – Today, three 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 informants...

Civil Rights Groups Seek to Expose Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Activists and Others

July 5, 2016

Civil rights groups mark 50th Anniversary of Freedom of Information Act by filing requests to expose government surveillance of activists of color July 5, 2016, New York – Color Of Change (COC) and...

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Press Releases

There Is No One More Unqualified to Be Attorney General Than Sessions, Says CCR Executive Director

Civil Rights Attorneys Who Took NYPD to Court & Won Slam Rep. Peter King on Muslim Surveillance Advice to President-elect After Trump Audience

Private Prison Corporations Cannot Stop Release of Government Documents, Attorneys Argue

CCR Legal Director: Japanese Internment, Muslim Registration Undermine Most Basic Constitutional Values

Human Rights Attorneys Sue FBI, DHS for Docs about Surveillance of the Movement for Black Lives

DHS Must Sever Ties with Toxic Private Prison Companies

Court Rules for Prisoners in Challenge to Secretive Federal Prison Units

DOJ to End Use of Private Prisons: CCR Says DHS and ICE Must Do the Same

American Muslims Who Refused to Become FBI Informants File Appeal Over No-Fly List

Civil Rights Groups Seek to Expose Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Activists and Others

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