January 11, 2021Biden News: Biden must take swift action to close the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison [caption align="right"] [/caption] Today marks the beginning of the 20th shameful year of Muslim men being...
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild launched the Sixth Edition of the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook (JLH)—a free legal resource for prisoners and their family...
June 30, 2015, New York – Today, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responded to the Obama administration’s long-awaited announcement that it had appointed a new official at the...
May 6, 2021, Lafayette, LA – Today, a federal judge allowed a challenge to an anti-protest pipeline law to proceed against a Louisiana District Attorney and sheriff. Activists and a journalist who...
May 6, 2021, Lafayette, LA – Today, a federal judge allowed a challenge to an anti-protest pipeline law to proceed against a Louisiana District Attorney and sheriff. Activists and a journalist who...
On February 22, 2017, CCR, Palestine Legal, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation, the Maryland National Lawyers Guild, and the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition...
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June 18, 2015Arabs and Muslims detained in the wake of the 9/11 attacks can sue top officials in George Bush's administration for civil rights abuses, a court has ruled The landmark ruling from three Court of...
June 13, 2011, Washington and New York – Today, nearly five years to the day after three men died at Guantánamo in June 2006 under still-unexplained circumstances, the Center for...
November 14, 2013, New York – In response to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ denial of District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s request to be heard on the Court of Appeals’...
Authoritative National Report Condemns Secure Communities Program Law Enforcement Experts and Victims of S-Comm Conclude Program Should Be Ended August 16, 2011, New York and Washington – Today...
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