April 22, 2016"When we were sentenced to death," wrote Carlos M. Argueta from death row in California, "we weren't sentenced to be mistreated, humiliated, discriminated against, psychologically tortured and kept...
April 20, 2016Civil rights attorneys knew that Public Act 436, Michigan’s current emergency manager law , was likely illegal and unconstitutional way back when it was first enacted, in December 2012. This was well...
April 26, 2016Public awareness of police brutality is growing, spurred by stories about individual Black men who have been murdered by police across the country. But Black women and women of color have been...
Murat%20Samantha%20Bee.jpg Years of lawyerless interrogation at Guantanamo Bay failed to connect Murat Kurnaz with terrorism, but Samantha Bee grills him just in case. Trouble seeing the video? Watch...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy will be arguing before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Al Shimari v. CACI , a federal lawsuit brought in 2008 on behalf of four Iraqi...
Updated: May 3, 2016
May 2, 2016, San Diego – This morning in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Joseph Buddenberg was sentenced to two years in federal prison for Conspiracy to Violate the...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, MPowerChange.org, and the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) invite you to a conversation about countering Islamophobia...
Updated: May 3, 2016
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak about her litigation to fight the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) alongside eco, animal liberation, and social justice activists from the...
Updated: May 3, 2016
May 4, 2016Yesterday, CCR joined a coalition of over 100 groups to send a letter to members of the New York Legislature, urging lawmakers to oppose bills that would effectively create blacklists of individuals...
May 5, 2016On May 4, 2016, CCR bestowed the Founders Award on Jules Lobel, our passionate cooperating attorney, board member since 1986, and current board president. Jules is the Bessie McKee Walthour Endowed...
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