November 12, 2009, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a case challenging Congress’s unconstitutional defunding of the Association of Community...
US “extraordinary rendition” was essentially put on trial for the first time - in Italy - and this week the court rendered a guilty verdict. This is the second major decision to come down this week...
Maria LaHood, Maher Arar’s attorney and senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, speaks on Democracy Now about the federal court of appeals dismissal of Canadian citizen Maher...
November 3, 2009 New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that five men who had been living in New York and were ultimately deported won a $1.26 million settlement...
October 28, 2009, New York – The following quote can be attributed to Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren in response to President Obama’s signing of new...
A federal judge has rejected a series of arguments by lawyers for the private military contractor Blackwater who were seeking to dismiss five war crimes cases brought by Iraqi victims against the...
Long Island families represented by the CCR are seeking to prevail in a lawsuit that could result in the state returning to them tens of millions of dollars for what families say are exorbitant phone...
Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a controversial anti-terrorism law that makes it a crime to give any form of aid, including humanitarian assistance, to groups on the State...
Should former Bush Administration officials be held legally accountable for their actions? CCR executive director Vince Warren says that accountability is the best way to ensure that government...
Profile of a mentally ill immigrant's unjustly prolonged detention. The CCR and other civil liberties advocates argue that certain protections, including the appointment of counsel to anyone with a...
