July 12, 2019..."What the government is saying in response to these cases, that they're not revocations, is a matter of semantics," said Diala Shamas, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She...
December 19, 2016On January 18, 2017, CCR will argue the last case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court during Obama’s presidency, Ziglar v. Abbasi , which by the time it is decided may become the most important...
Time: 7:30 Evening discussion with Katherine Gallagher, CCR Staff Attorney and Laura Raymond, CCR International Human Rights Associate. The Center for Constitutional...
Updated: September 3, 2009
Senior Staff Attorney Pam Spees will speak on CCR's current case filed on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) at Western New England University School of Law on April 9th. To learn more about...
Updated: March 27, 2013
Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy will be arguing before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Al Shimari v. CACI , a federal lawsuit brought in 2008 on behalf of four Iraqi...
Updated: May 3, 2016
June 28, 2017The 2016-2017 term, which concluded on Monday, opened with eight justices and every expectation that, after Hillary Clinton was elected, the Court’s balance would soon tilt liberal for the first time...
Board Will Not Reconsider Prisoner for Release May 4, 2017, New York – Today, lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) criticized a decision by the Guantánamo Periodic Review Board (PRB...
November 1, 2017, New York – In response to a military judge’s decision to hold Brigadier General John Baker in contempt of court, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following...
June 5, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to breaking news first published in The Guardian showing a secret Foreign...
June 25, 2014, New York – Today, in a case filed on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), attorneys argued to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that videotapes of Guant...
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