Read the complete letter. CCR writes to ask you to prevent the execution of Troy Anthony Davis. Capital punishment, as it is applied in the United States, is expensive, racist, arbitrary, fallible...
August 27, 2011, New York – Today, in response to news not only that Mayor Bloomberg announced the City of New York does not plan to evacuate the 12,000 prisoners at Rikers Island in advance of...
New York, August 11 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights, in partnership with the National Lawyers Guild, launched an interactive website to supplement the release of the Fifth Edition...
July 26, 2011, New York – Yesterday, CCR joined with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties groups to file a brief of amicus curiae in the case, United States v...
July 19, 2011, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement today support of the hunger strikers at the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit: "The Center for...
July 19, 2011, New York – Yesterday, victims of drone attacks in Pakistan and their families filed a "First Information Report" (FIR) in Islamabad seeking an arrest warrant for John...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is deeply dismayed at the Obama Administration’s claim that it can continue military attacks on Libya without Congressional approval as...
June 15, 2011, New York – Today, as Congressman Peter King leads the House Committee on Homeland Security through the second in a series of hearings examining so-called homegrown Islamic...
May 6, 2011, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren issued the following statement: In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, it is a time to be...
May 7, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in response to yesterday’s reports of an attempt by the U.S. to kill Anwar Al-Aulaqi by...