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Center for Constitutional Rights We fight against oppression. We stand with social justice activists and communities under threat. We use the power of the law to achieve justice for all.

Founded on 1966, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) began its work on behalf of civil rights activists, and, over the last four decades, has lent its expertise and support to virtually every popular movement for social justice. We use daring and innovative legal strategies which have produced many important precedents. CCR is often “ahead of the curve” in both identifying a problem and in suggesting novel or radical legal responses which, over time, become accepted and respected precedents and theories. CCR accepts cases and projects based on principle and the value of the struggle itself, not solely by using a calculus of victory. There are cases which CCR has worked on tenaciously for decades before success was achieved, yet we stood by the cause and the client. We will continue to take these types of cases because justice demands it. As we look to the future, CCR will continue to be at the forefront of legal thinking, using the law creatively in the service of justice. Through our human rights work, we will strengthen the international rule of law to promote justice and oppose armed and other forms of aggression. Through our racial justice work, we will strive to complete the unfinished civil rights movement, targeting racial profiling and other modern-day manifestations of racial repression. We are dedicated to restoring the fundamental right to habeas corpus and will continue to combat the illegal expansion of executive power and the American torture programs that have undermined fundamental rights in the name of the so-called “war on terror.”

History has repeatedly taught us that the hard-won victories of yesterday can never be taken for granted. As society changes, new threats to our rights arise, even as old ones are defeated. CCR will continue defending progressive movements for social change and devising new strategies to ensure that fundamental rights are the rights of the many and not just the few.

Three years into the genocide in Gaza, Netanyahu will duck in and out of the U.S., a wanted criminal and blood-soaked pa...
09/25/2026

Three years into the genocide in Gaza, Netanyahu will duck in and out of the U.S., a wanted criminal and blood-soaked pariah.

What happens if habeas petitions are—de facto—unavailable to the people? That's the question facing detainees at Adams C...
09/22/2026

What happens if habeas petitions are—de facto—unavailable to the people? That's the question facing detainees at Adams County detention center, where there is a backlog of over 800 habeas cases.

"The government can just take you and detain you and put you in custody without any recourse," says staff attorney Korbin Felder.

The Workers Circle, a New York-based national social justice organization, coordinated a news conference. with immigration detainees at Adams County Detention Center and family members.

09/21/2026

On September 18, 2026 Staff Attorney Korbin Felder joined the Workers Circle as they gathered people who are detained, impacted families and attorneys for people detained inside the dangerous and inhumane conditions at the Adams County ICE Detention Center in Natchez, MS

Together, they called for an end to the inhumane detentions and deportations of our immigrant neighbors, family members and friends, underscoring the urgency of ending the inhumane and unlawful treatment and detention of immigrants.

09/20/2026

Earlier this week following the hearing in Badar Khan Suri’s immigration hearing, Johnny Sinodis of Van der Hout LLP, the legal team representing him in immigration court, had this to say: “Badar has been targeted unlawfully in violation of his first amendment rights for conduct that's clearly protected by the US constitution.”

He continued, urging the public to pay attention to Dr. Khan Suri’s case “It's extremely important that all of you are here to witness this. It's important that people continue to report on the issue because Badar might be the target today. It could be someone else tomorrow.”

This week we filed a major lawsuit against DHS, challenging its latest racist rule that targets low-income immigrants. T...
09/20/2026

This week we filed a major lawsuit against DHS, challenging its latest racist rule that targets low-income immigrants. The new rule would begin on September 18 and apply to those seeking status through a family member.

Our lawsuit, filed on behalf of Make the Road New York, New York Legal Assistance Group - NYLAG, Association to Benefit Children, and African Communities Together ask the courts to strike down this unlawful and discriminatory rule.

The case was filed with the Legal Aid Society and Democracy Forward.

Learn more on our website: https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/legal-aid-democracy-forward-center-constitutional-rights-file

We're hiring!Part-Time Operations Associate. Please submit your application 10/13.Reminder that the application window i...
09/18/2026

We're hiring!

Part-Time Operations Associate. Please submit your application 10/13.

Reminder that the application window is still open for the following positions:
Donor Relations Officer - apply by 9/22
Policy Advocacy Associate - apply by 10/6
Ella Baker Summer Interns - apply by 9/29

More details on each role and information on how to apply at bit.ly/ccr-jobs.

No phone calls please!

09/18/2026

WATCH: Dr. Badar Khan Suri’s statements outside following his immigration hearing earlier this week. “The government’s argument is very specious. It's very shallow,” says Khan Suri. “They want to talk about something, but it has no roots. They are saying that I'm antisemite, I'm anti this or that, but they're just saying it for the sake of saying it. They have just some political agenda."

“I’m very hopeful justice will prevail.”

Dr. Badar Khan Suri is represented

Repost from Georgetown Voice

Dr. Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown postdoctoral researcher and professor, spoke outside of court Tuesday after the first session of his immigration hearings. Georgetown students, faculty, and staff took the stands in the courtroom to testify on Khan Suri’s behalf. This is a developing story that will be updated.

Video by Sydney Carroll/The Georgetown Voice

Yesterday our board member, Prof. Noura Erakat, was arrested while joining 100 South Florida residents to give comments ...
09/17/2026

Yesterday our board member, Prof. Noura Erakat, was arrested while joining 100 South Florida residents to give comments against Israel Bonds during the public Palm Beach County Budget hearing.

We stand in solidarity with Prof. Erakat and join her and South Florida residents in calling on Palm Beach County officials to end its $1 billion in Israeli bonds investments—money that is used to murder Palestinians.

Legal Director Baher Azmy in the Boston Review: following 9/11 "the United States’s totalizing military response has nev...
09/11/2026

Legal Director Baher Azmy in the Boston Review: following 9/11 "the United States’s totalizing military response has never come to an end."

U.S. impunity "paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court."

Legal Director Baher Azmy writes in the Boston Review that following 9/11 "the United States’s totalizing military respo...
09/11/2026

Legal Director Baher Azmy writes in the Boston Review that following 9/11 "the United States’s totalizing military response has never come to an end."

"Impunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court."

Impunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court.

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