In Washington, D.C, on June 13, 2005, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that prison officials cannot confine inmates in long term solitary confinement in a supermaximum prison without...
The Cardozo International Law Society, Cardozo Students for Human Rights, and the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy present Targeting Terror: Can the Executive carry out “...
Updated: December 2, 2010
President-Elect Donald Trump’s blatantly Islamophobic campaign has stoked fears of an era of a particularly egregious of religious discrimination and abuse of civil and human rights, but the...
Updated: January 17, 2017
Join CCR and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC , in association with The Public Theater's Public Forum , for an evening of storytelling and conversation about CCR’s Supreme Court case...
Updated: January 26, 2017
November 20, 2018, San Francisco — A federal court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban. The Center for Constitutional Rights, Civil Liberties Union, and Southern Poverty Law...
In April 2004, news outlets broke the story of torture and abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The stories were accompanied by gruesome photos from a whistleblower – images so...
Updated: February 29, 2024
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ longstanding case, Al Shimari v. CACI , brought on behalf of three Iraqi torture victims against U.S.-based government contractor CACI Premier Technology,...
Updated: April 26, 2024
May 15, 2024...In April, I sat in on the closing arguments of Al Shimari v. CACI , a federal lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of three victims of torture at Abu Ghraib against...
Court of Appeals Rejects Defendants’ Attempt to Have Case Dismissed June 17, 2016, Miami – More than 12 years after government-planned massacres in Bolivia killed 58 unarmed civilians, the Eleventh...
Last week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of the Center for Constitutional Rights’ (CCR) case, Blum v. Holder ¸ challenging the...
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