November 3, 2017THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Friday she is seeking an investigation of alleged war crimes committed in the war in Afghanistan, an...
November 30, 2017Sixteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, and 17 years after two suicide bombers killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole , the death penalty trials of the Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the attacks...
December 5, 2017The US supreme court ruled on Monday that a ban ordered by Donald Trump on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and two other countries could be immediately imposed while multiple court cases...
February 16, 2018... Writing at the Guardian on Friday, Katherine Gallagher, a senior staff attorney with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights , argues that a "criminal investigation of U.S. torture—...
In a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of stories, the Associated Press revealed through leaked documents that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had secretly launched a vast program of human mapping...
Updated: September 8, 2021
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Omar Farah will argue that the government should release an unredacted copy of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) " Race Paper ," in our case, Color of Change v. DHS...
Updated: May 16, 2018
December 12, 2018... In the aftermath of Salaita's un-hiring, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the non-profit organization Palestinian Legal collaborated on a report entitled " The Palestinian Exception to...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights and pack the court for oral arguments in Al Otro Lado v. Nielsen, a class action lawsuit against officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
Updated: May 2, 2019
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died last week at age 99, almost a decade after retiring from the high court. Stevens was nominated in 1975 by Republican President Gerald Ford,...
Updated: July 31, 2019
Jumana Musa, Takoma Park, MD, is a human rights attorney and racial justice activist. She is currently the Director of the Fourth Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense...
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