August 4, 2010 NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today received a license from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign...
By Glenn Greenwald A major legal challenge to one of the Obama administration's most radical assertions of executive power began this morning in a federal courthouse in Washington, DC. Early last...
by Dina Temple-Raston The father of the Internet's most famous radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, is planning to sue the U.S. government for including his son on a CIA target list. Nasser al-Awlaki...
By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — A group of human rights lawyers want to stop the Obama administration from authorizing the military and the C.I.A. to kill the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-...
August 3, 2010, Washington, DC and New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury Department and...
July 30, 2010, New York - A group of 72 Iraqi citizens who allege they were tortured while imprisoned at detention facilities across Iraq can continue with their lawsuit against military contractor L...
July 21, 2010 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement regarding the U.S. government’s forcible repatriation of Abdul Aziz Naji to Algeria: “...
June 13, 2010, New York, NY – Yesterday, the United States’ first prosecution under the little known Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was derailed when Judge Ronald M. Whyte of the...
