April 30, 2012 - Today, Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald, a transgender woman of color, will be tried for the alleged murder of her attacker. Last June, Ms. McDonald was the victim of an attack...
May 14, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responded to new NYPD data showing the highest rate of unlawful stop-and-frisk to date during the first quarter of...
June 25, 2012, New York – Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren issued the following statement in response to today’s Supreme court ruling on Arizona's...
September 27, 2012 – In response to the European Court of Human Rights’s (ECtHR) ruling in Babar Ahmad and others v. The United Kingdom earlier this week, which allows five men held in...
October 29, 2012, New York -- Today, in response to Mayor Bloomberg's statement at last night's press conference that "Jails are secure...don't worry about anyone getting out" during...
December 6, 2012, New York – In a long-standing civil rights lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the firm of DLA Piper against the New York City Board of Education, a...
December 17, 2012, New York – Today, attorneys announced the settlement of a home raids case against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Seven men and women and one child brought the...
January 10, 2013, New York –In response to Governor Cuomo’s proposal in his State of the State address to reform the state’s marijuana laws, Center for Constitutional Rights...
March 18, 2013, New York, NY – The Vulcan Society, the fraternal organization of Black firefighters in the FDNY, pointed to a New York Post report on the racist and anti-semetic twitter feed of...
April 4, 2013, New York – Twenty-two Latino victims of unlawful warrantless home raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) obtained a settlement today requiring new national policies...
