March 8, 2011, New York – In response to the impending hearings being held by United States Representative Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on “The Extent of...
Feb 16, 2011 – Today, advocates made available excepts of 15,000 pages of documents released following litigation by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Center for Constitutional...
February 4, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to an emergency petition filed on January 6, 2011 by six rights groups, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (...
February 1, 2011, New York and San Francisco – Last night the federal district court in San Francisco dismissed CCR v. Obama , a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
January 5, 2011, New York and Phoenix – Attorneys representing lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) were in court late yesterday seeking...
January 6, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today six civil and human rights groups filed an emergency petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), to halt the...
December 22, 2010 - Last week, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from legal and free speech experts about the possible application of the Espionage Act to the recent publication of secret...
December 17, 2010, Washington, DC– Attorneys are no longer required to seek permission from the government to provide uncompensated representation to individuals the government has placed on a...
December 16, 2010, New York – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) wrote to President Barack Obama outlining concerns that deporting people with criminal convictions to Haiti...
December 13, 2010, New York – The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) announced on December 9 that it has lifted the ban on deportations to Haiti for persons with criminal...