March 24, 20011, New York – Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, made the following statement on behalf of the Center: Len Weinglass was one of the great...
March 23, 2017On November 8, 2013, I was finally released from Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit (SHU). Pelican Bay prison is in the city of Crescent City, California. My name is Art N. Ramirez. At...
September 10, 2021... Legal experts told Middle East Eye that while efforts to rein in the 1991 and 2002 war power authorisations were a positive development, the 2001 AUMF would likely remain in place in some shape...
Please pack the court for oral arguments in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s case challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ “Communication Management Units.” The CMUs are experimental prison units that impose...
Updated: March 4, 2016
April 27, 2017...NYPD’s body camera program came as a result of the Floyd v. City of New York case in which a federal judge found stop-and-frisk to be unconstitutional and ordered the police to use body cameras...
June 2, 2015We thought we'd heard the most gruesome torture allegations last December, when the US Senate released its infamous report detailing the CIA's use of so-called "enhanced interrogation" methods. Now a...
CCR, together with Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, and 350 New Orleans, has filed a petition in Louisiana state court seeking the release of records relating to the communications...
Updated: December 3, 2019
Legislature passed 2018 critical infrastructure amendment at behest of oil and gas industry to restrict pipeline protests, plaintiffs say February 24, 2025, New Orleans – Today before the Fifth...
February 18, 2021...A coalition of more than 40 advocacy groups is calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action imposing a moratorium on U.S. government use of facial recognition and other biometric...
Get the Facts: Suit Seeks Accountability for Killings of Three Americans in U.S. Drone Strikes Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta What are “targeted killings” and when are they illegal? Since 2001, and...
Updated: July 17, 2013
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