October 13, 2015A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim groups in New Jersey after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying any...
Trouble seeing the video? Watch on Democracy Now! University of Illinois trustees have voted to agree to a $875,000 financial settlement with Steven Salaita. Last year, his job offer for a tenured...
Updated: November 16, 2015
December 21, 2015In 2015, we continued many long and hard-fought battles against powerful and well-resourced institutions – the U.S. government, the NYPD, the NY Fire Department, the FBI, and the California...
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on Monday, April 4. The April vigil will make connections between imprisonment of Muslims and the...
Updated: March 28, 2016
Join the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) for a screening of The Holy Land Five. This documentary, produced by Al-Jazeera, examines their case in scrupulous detail to reveal how...
Updated: December 21, 2016
December 23, 2016In the waning hours of Barack Obama’s presidency, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will argue a case before the supreme court that could have a tremendous impact on civil rights in the US...
January 1, 2017Two of the most important cases that the Supreme Court will hear during its current Term involve the availability of “ Bivens remedies” judge made causes of action that allow individuals to seek...
Angelo Guisado is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he specializes in government misconduct, racial justice, and immigrants’ rights issues. His practice currently...
April 16, 2017A pilot program for police officers to begin wearing body cameras this month cleared a major hurdle when it was approved last week by the federal monitor overseeing changes to the New York Police...
But Possibility to Prove Liability of Prison Administrators Remains June 19, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court ruling that former high-level Bush...
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