New York City cannot address the NYPD’s long history and continuation of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory policing practices without substantive engagement with the communities most...
March 25, 2021, New York – As the City Council prepares to vote on the New York City Police Reform and Reinvention Plan, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following response: New York...
Since its inception, the U.S. Constitution has implicitly and explicitly approved of the institution of slavery and the racial caste system it necessitated. That legacy has deeply influenced how our...
Lawsuit “Not Persuasive,” Judge Rules March 30, 2021, Washington, D.C. – A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and others against a U.S.-based Palestinian rights...
A series of attacks on cis/trans women and non-binary people, during this year’s Women’s History Month, have laid bare how prevalent and deadly misogyny and cisheteropatriarchy remain, particularly...
Victims in Palestine Afghanistan, and Victims of U.S. Torture Deserve Justice Without Delay April 2, 2021, New York – In response to the Biden administration’s revocation of a Trump-era Executive...
...Human rights and anti-war activists marked the 18th anniversary of the second of three American-led invasions of Iraq by renewing calls for the U.S.—this time the Biden administration—to pay...
... Attorneys for the women said they recently discovered in documents they requested that Stephen Miller, a senior advisor to Trump, intended for the money to be used to fund a wall at the U.S.-...
... In a Thursday statement ahead of the vote, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) had urged the council to reject "all portions of the New York City Police Reform and Reinvention...
... “The thing is, Border Patrol has long implemented punitive policies to deter migration,” Angelo Guisado , staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights told Law&Crime. “In 1994 they...
