November 18, 2016Why would a Berlin-based European human rights organization celebrate CCR’s 50 years of work and dedicate an entire day of their conference to the legacy of Michael Ratner? Because for more than two...
December 28, 2020Legal updates in our family separation lawsuit against ICE In 2018, we filed an emergency case to reunite a father whose then 19-month-old son was forcibly taken from him at the Southern border where...
November 15, 2021In July 2017, Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya, two activists from the Catholic Worker Movement, held a press conference to announce that they were responsible for acts of vandalism against the...
October 1, 2024, Pasadena, CA – Last night, a federal judge ruled in a case challenging the Biden administration’s policy of turning back asylum seekers who approach ports of entry along the southern...
July 2009A federal judge has determined that the Fire Department of New York City used racially discriminatory hiring practices that unlawfully prevented hundreds of qualified African American and Latino...
February 2014by Pardiss Kebriaei Since 9/11, the Department of Justice has prosecuted more than 500 terrorism cases, yet there remains scant public understanding of what these federal cases have actually looked...
Guests: Paul Washington , past president of the fraternal order of black firefighters, the Vulcan Society. Shayana Kadidal , managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. AMY GOODMAN:...
Updated: March 18, 2010
Periodically, we gather significant developments and updates from the Center for Constitutional Rights in a concise newsletter that can bring a reader up to speed on work around all of our cases and...
Updated: March 15, 2023
On February 20, 2018, CCR and partner organizations Asian Law Caucus, Muslim Advocates, and the Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Pennsylvania State Law School released a resource providing...
Updated: February 20, 2018
July 13, 2020On July 8th, the Abolitionist Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, seeking to abolish the states’s cruel mandatory Life Without...
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