Press Releases
CCR in the News
July 10, 2026
CCR in the News
"Over the past 15 years, in my work at the nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, I’ve filed and helped to litigate dozens of FOIA requests, primarily related to federal law enforcement programs run by our bureaucracy of acronyms—ICE, FBI, DHS, DOD, and many more. It has become increasingly...
July 1, 2026
CCR in the News
“'The Trump administration is racing to put people on planes and send them to countries they have no connection to, treating human beings as cargo instead of people with rights,' according to Korbin Felder, Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights." “'This is a deliberate attempt to...
July 1, 2026
CCR in the News
The legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Baher Azmy, said it is absurd and dangerous for any state to just unilaterally proclaim that a ‘war’ exists in order to deploy lethal military force. “These are lawless killings in cold blood; killings for sport and killings for theater,...
July 1, 2026
CCR in the News
Senior Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie speaks to Law and Disorder about our case Black Love Resists in the Rust v. City of Buffalo . The Buffalo Police Department is headed to trial for placing hundreds of checkpoints in Black & Brown communities leading to thousands of unconstitutional stops...
July 1, 2026
CCR in the News
"Astha Sharma Pokharel, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the plaintiffs are seeking immediate court intervention to prevent what they describe as the erasure of a historic community founded by formerly enslaved people after emancipation." Read the full article on...