July 2014By Alexis Agathocleous and Rachel Meeropol, senior attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights When Todd Ashker was transferred to the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California's Pelican Bay...
June 12, 2015, New York – Today, attorneys for four American Muslim men with no criminal records who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List by the FBI in retaliation for their refusal to become...
June 12, 2015So what happens when the FBI is given full discretion to use one of the many ever-expanding government watchlists to coerce law-abiding people into spying in their communities? They use it, of course...
July 10, 2015Stephanie Llanes, and John Cusick NY State Capitol. Mothers of New Yorkers killed by police. (Photo by Nahal Zamani) They went to Albany seeking a measure of justice, a guarantee that other families...
December 11, 2015By now, much ink has been spilled in rightful condemnation of Donald Trump’s call on Monday for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” The New York Daily News ran an...
January 26, 2016, Oakland – As a federal judge prepared to hold a hearing for the final approval of a landmark settlement agreement to end indefinite solitary confinement in California, the Center...
March 14, 2016This morning in Flint, Michigan I stood together with our community and legal partners to announce the Center for Constitutional Rights’ latest challenge to Michigan’s undemocratic and racially...
June 22, 2016As part of CCR’s discriminatory policing , sexual and gender-based violence , and LGBTQI persecution work, CCR successfully challenged Louisiana’s requirement that those charged under the archaic and...
CCR seeks a dynamic, creative Staff Attorney with 4-7 years of litigation experience. While this attorney may ultimately work on a broad range of the Center’s litigation and advocacy campaigns, CCR...
Updated: October 10, 2016
September 6, 2016Ten years. It’s been exactly a decade since President George W. Bush announced on September 6, 2006 that 14 former CIA prisoners had been brought to Guantanamo. That was when we learned about the...
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