After Trump's executive orders making national policy out of anti-Muslim hate, our Supreme Court case Ziglar v. Abbasi (changed from Turkmen v. Ashcroft in November 2016) could not be more timely or...
Updated: January 26, 2017
February 10, 2017...“I think there’d be good reason for the court to decline, for the same reason that all of the courts have been acting, which is, the court would see there’s no urgent threat here,” said Baher Azmy...
April 27, 2017...Take, for example, a lawsuit announced yesterday by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal, legal organizations that deal with progressive issues and with Palestinian advocacy,...
June 8, 2017In terms of a civil lawsuit, when is a win not a win? Possibly when the judge, though ruling in your favor, takes pains to describe your views as "ludicrious," "abhorrent," "pathetic" and examples of...
June 19, 2017The Supreme Court ruled former high-ranking officials in the George W. Bush administration, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, could not be held...
June 20, 2017Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Ziglar v. Abbasi , an important case curbing lawsuits against former government officials for purported abuse of federal detainees. Some will view this decision...
January 11, 2018...Their complaint, filed on the 16th anniversary of the opening of the detention center on the base in southeast Cuba, is unusual legal step since this type of action, known as habeas corpus...
April 3, 2018...The Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit based in New York, and a team from Yale Law School met in March with nearly 50 families in Djibouti, "all U.S. citizens or their children, parents...
August 14, 2018...Pamela C. Spees, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs and a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing SMUG for free, scoffed at the idea Lively notched a victory in the...
If you know CCR, you’re probably familiar with some of our groundbreaking cases. But who are the people working at the Center for Constitutional Rights? In the third episode of The Activist Files, we...
Updated: February 26, 2019
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