Washington, D.C. – A panel of judges in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the government’s appeal of District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina’s order issued six weeks ago that 17...
2009-04-06 Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for 17 Uighurs imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay asked the Supreme Court to recognize that the right to habeas corpus requires a remedy when a...
The Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), Amistad Law Project (ALP), and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of individuals serving mandatory sentences of Death By Incarceration (...
Updated: October 25, 2021
Prisoners, Some Near-Death, File Urgent Petition for Release from “Ticking Timebomb” Detention Centers April 1, 2020, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National...
May 4, 2020This is the second in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. In this moment of tens of thousands of lives lost , anti-Asian racism , and inequitable access to COVID-19 testing ,...
We look at the extraordinary story from Guantánamo of a father and son who were held for many years and what became of them after their release. Abdul Nasser Khantumani and his son Muhammed were...
Updated: June 1, 2015
June 20, 2017In today’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in Ziglar v. Abbasi in more detail than you could possibly want. What’s that one even about, you ask? Damages...
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, Northeastern Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, NYU...
Updated: April 4, 2019
Federal lawsuit challenging constitutionality of state-appointed “Emergency Managers” in predominantly black and brown communities of Michigan
Updated: July 25, 2018
April 12, 2019...In a statement , the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) decried Assange's arrest and possible extradition to the U.S. "a worrying step on the slippery slope to punishing any journalist the...
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