November 2013Achieving justice for racial discrimination has long been fraught with obstacles. During the civil rights era, it was Southern governors and school boards who blatantly obstructed court orders to...
April 21, 2017One day in February 2007, Rachel Meeropol stumbled upon a news story about a “secretive” and perhaps illegal prison unit “isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners,” which had sprung up like newly...
On the thirteenth episode of The Activist Files, Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain speaks with Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy and Senior Staff Attorney Katherine...
Updated: September 8, 2021
March 24, 20011, New York – Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, made the following statement on behalf of the Center: Len Weinglass was one of the great...
February 9, 2009, New York – In response to the position Obama’s Justice Department took today in a key rendition case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Mohamed et al v...
Save the Date: September 30, 2009 Lunch discussion with Katherine Gallagher, CCR Staff Attorney and Laura Raymond, CCR International Human Rights Associate. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
Updated: September 23, 2009
October 2014"The Second Circuit Court of Appeals granted the city’s request to withdraw its appeal in Floyd v New York, a 2008 case challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk...
September 30, 2016... Arguing the case, first in federal court and then before the Supreme Court, was the late human rights lawyer and feminist Rhonda Copelon, who was then an attorney at the Center for Constitutional...
October 21, 2016 Richmond, VA – Today, a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit against private military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. (CACI) for the corporation...
March 13, 2017In the final hearing of the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi , a case 15 years in the making for Rachel Meeropol ’02, senior staff attorney at the Center...
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