January 30, 2018, New York – In response to the announcement by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner James O’Neill that the New York City Police Department will be speeding up the expansion of its...
January 30, 2018...Opponents of the new timetable were quick to criticize it. "The NYPD decision today seems extremely premature," said Darius Charney, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional...
February 5, 2018, New York –Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a letter to the New York City Council Committee on...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Omar Farah will speak at the 2018 annual Day of Remembrance Program and Community Potluck , hosted by the Japanese American United Church. This annual program commemorates...
Updated: February 15, 2018
Please join CCR and partners in court for oral argument in Ashker v. Governor of California , a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in solitary confinement in California’s...
Updated: February 22, 2018
Please join CCR and partners for Refest 2.0 , CultureHub's annual festival, which brings together artists, activists, and technologists to explore technology's role in shaping our future. In this "un...
Updated: March 7, 2018
On February 20, 2018, CCR and partner organizations Asian Law Caucus, Muslim Advocates, and the Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Pennsylvania State Law School released a resource providing...
Updated: February 20, 2018
One year ago, a force of local, state, and federal law enforcement evicted the Dakota Access pipeline resistance camps. Only in the movement’s aftermath has the close coordination between police and...
Updated: March 13, 2018
Please join CCR and partners in court as Angelo Guisado and Britney Wilson argue in Furlow v Belmar , a case pending in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, that...
Updated: February 27, 2018
Please join CCR from 6:30 pm - 9:00pm on March 12th to watch a short-film series that takes an in depth look at the Louisiana Water Protectors on the front lines of resisting Energy Transfer Partners...
Updated: February 28, 2018
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