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Press Releases

August 9, 2024, New York – Today, on the 10th anniversary of the police killing of Michael Brown that sparked the Ferguson uprising, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following...
Returnees Abused in Both Countries; U.S. Breached Asylum Confidentiality July 18, 2024, Washington, D.C. – The United States government has, since May 2024, approved the return of 27 Cameroonian...

CCR in the News

August 5, 2024

CCR in the News

... J Wells Dixon, a staff lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who has represented defendants at Guantanamo as well as other detainees there who have been cleared of any wrongdoing, had welcomed the plea bargains as the only feasible way to resolve the long-stalled and legally fraught 9/...
August 5, 2024

CCR in the News

... Rights groups have called on the Biden administration to investigate crimes committed in Gaza as potential violations of US law. Ahead of the trip to the US last week of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Center for Constitutional Rights urged the US Department of Justice to...
August 2, 2024

Blog Post

Before being deported, they had experienced abuses in U.S. immigration detention
CCR Blog
July 11, 2024

Blog Post

At every turn, this Court defers to power at the expense of pluralism, individual freedom, and democracy
CCR Blog
July 2, 2024

Blog Post

The ruling will inflict disproportionate harm on LGBTQIA+ people, because they are unhoused at extremely high rates
CCR Blog

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