AL ODAH/BOUMEDIENE LEGAL ARGUMENT AND IMPLICATIONS Boumediene v. Bush: Whether the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600, validly stripped federal court jurisdiction...
Updated: July 19, 2010
Since the first detainees were brought to the offshore prison at Guantánamo Bay in January 2002, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and allies have been advocating on behalf of detainees...
Updated: September 8, 2021
In Fall 2013, Professor Steven Salaita accepted a tenured faculty position in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) after a rigorous, year-long...
Updated: January 30, 2015
Palestine Legal Responded to Nearly 300 Incidents in 2014-2015; 85 Percent Targeted Students and Scholars on More Than 65 College Campuses September 30, 2015 - A new report, “ The Palestine Exception...
October 28, 2015Today we have filed an appeal to the D.C. Circuit in Aref v. Holder , marking the latest chapter in an eight-year challenge to the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) secretive “Communications Management Units...
August 2, 2016Last week, CCR learned that Engine 234 in Crown Heights, the fire company of Paul Washington, former President of the Vulcan Society , the fraternal organization of Black firefighters in the FDNY, a...
April 20, 2017Originally posted on Huffington Post . Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump made no secret of his hostility toward movements that have drawn attention to police violence, challenged the...
The Digital Engagement Manager will have three primary areas of responsibility: managing and executing CCR’s social media strategies; helping to further develop CCR’s email communications program;...
Updated: November 28, 2017
April 9, 2018NJ Muslims win settlement with NYPD [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, a group of Muslim-owned businesses, mosques, individuals, and student groups announced that we finalized a...
November 12, 2018Preview of Bayou Bridge Pipeline hearing this Friday [caption align="right"] [/caption] After the Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC (BBP) was sued for beginning construction of a crude oil pipeline on land...
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