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Updated: March 24, 2015
October 17, 2016Ten years ago today, President George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA). It was enacted to authorize trials by military commission for the September 11 attacks, and...
CCR and Muslim Advocates File FOIA Lawsuit on Opaque Muslim Ban Waiver Process Washington, DC – Following the United States Supreme Court decision to uphold the Muslim Ban, Muslim Advocates (MA) and...
February 18, 2014, New York – In response to recent revelations by Edward Snowden of the NSA’s global effort to surveil, intimidate and target WikiLeaks, its publisher Julian Assange, and...
April 2009Reporting from Washington -- President Obama said Tuesday that he would not rule out prosecuting senior Bush administration officials who provided the legal rationale for harsh interrogation...
Washington, D.C. & New York City, September 7, 2017 – At a landmark hearing held today in Mexico City, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and the Center for Constitutional...
December 12, 2008, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals the decision of a federal court judge who ruled that the government did...
Habeas corpus, or the Great Writ, is the legal procedure that keeps the government from holding you indefinitely without showing cause. When you challenge your detention by filing a habeas corpus...
Updated: January 11, 2010
August 2013As the Police Department performed a mounting number of stops on New York streets, voices of opposition, slow and scattershot, struggled to be heard. Complaints, mostly from minority areas, never...
October 9, 2009, New York, NY – The Court of Appeals heard arguments today in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) warrantless surveillance case, Wilner v. National Security Agency (NSA...
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