August 30, 2011, New York and San Francisco – Last night the first brief was filed in the appeal in CCR v. Obama, a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against the...
New York, August 18, 2011- In the wake of protests and civil disobedience in Chicago yesterday and across the country criticizing the Obama administration’s Secure Communities program,...
August 10, 2011, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq., the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Law...
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 – Yesterday, victims of drone attacks in Pakistan and their families filed a "First Information Report" (FIR) in Islamabad seeking an arrest warrant for John...
July 11, 2011, New York – In a victory today for plaintiffs the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice...
June 29, 2011, New Orleans – Late last night, legislation eliminating the mandatory sex offender registration requirement for individuals convicted of Louisiana’s Solicitation of a Crime...
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...
June 8, 2011, New York and Washington – Today, advocates and attorneys critical of the controversial immigration program Secure Communities (S-Comm) decried the agency’s placing of...