Decision Would Increase the Risk of Illegal Transfers to Torture Washington, DC. - Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its opinion in Kiyemba v. Obama. The...
Please join us in College Station, TX, where CCR attorney J. Wells Dixon will speak on April 16, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. Wells will speak about his experience representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, and...
NYU School of Law's American Constitution Society and Law Students for Human Rights are pleased to announce a panel discussion on National Security and Detainee Policy in the Obama...
The Justice Department has filed "unclassified" records in federal court outlining the government's cases against more than 100 detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, but...
Among George W. Bush’s controversial legal maneuvers was a repackaging of the notion of “enemy combatant.” If the President determined a person was an “enemy combatant,” the Bush Justice lawyers...
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration argued in court documents filed Friday that four former detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp who have sued over their treatment have no constitutional...
Following up on my earlier post about whether the Obama Justice Department really ought to be representing John Yoo — the notorious former Office of Legal Counsel lawyer during the Bush...
March 13, 2009, New York – In response to this afternoon’s government filing in multiple Guantánamo cases, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement...
VETERANS FOR PEACE WITH CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND POETS OF VENTURA PRESENT: "POEMS FROM GUANTANAMO" Featuring: Vincent Warren, Executive Director, CCR Poetry...
Washington, DC - The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday to explore setting up a commission to investigate and report on potentially criminal policies of the Bush administration...
