... “Yes, it was in 1789, but it is still on the books,” said Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights , which also filed an amicus brief in the case . “At the time that it was...
... Attorneys for the women said they recently discovered in documents they requested that Stephen Miller, a senior advisor to Trump, intended for the money to be used to fund a wall at the U.S.-...
...The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights said on Thursday that “there is a credible case, based on powerful evidence, that Israel is attempting to commit, if not actively committing,...
August 5, 2015, New York – Today, in response to the publication of “ Towards the Closure of Guantanamo ,” a report issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Center for...
December 24, New York – In response to President Obama’s signing yesterday of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following...
December 19, 2018, San Francisco — A federal court has again blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban. The American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Center for...
WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ - The U.S. Supreme Court sent a terrible message with its refusal today to hear the case of 250 civilians allegedly tortured and seriously harmed by corporate...
April 16, 2009, New York – In response to President Obama’s decision to guarantee immunity to CIA officials who carried out the drowning torture known as waterboarding, which his attorney...
February 18, 2012, New York –Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request for rehearing in the case USA v. El-Mezain, et al . The defendants are five former officers and...
