February 25, 2016President Obama's plan to close Guantanamo Bay outright faces stiff political opposition from Congress. But the plan the president outlined Tuesday could all but empty out the military prison by the...
October 22, 2016In a major rebuke to post-9/11 Bush-era legal arguments regarding torture, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Friday that “even the president” doesn’t have the legal capability to...
April 1, 2022... "For more than a decade, Co-Managing Partner Katya Jestin has worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Military Commissions Defense Organization to represent Mr. Khan pro bono. “...
Pack the Court for United States of America and Vulcan Society, Inc., v. City of New York , starting Monday, Oct. 1st For more than a decade, CCR has been challenging the fundamental inequality of...
Updated: September 25, 2012
Attorneys to Seek Arrest Warrant March 1, 2016, New York, Paris – Retired U.S. General Geoffrey Miller, the former Guantánamo prison chief, was a no-show in a French court Tuesday. Miller had been...
August 6, 2014, New York – Today, the City of New York and plaintiffs jointly filed a motion with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to withdraw the City’s appeal of Floyd v. City of New...
April 3, 2017This week's issue: Challenging Michigan’s racist and undemocratic Emergency Manager law; laws passed by state legislatures that attempt to suppress Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions; centering Black...
President Obama has failed in his pledge of eight years ago to close the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo. Congressional obstacles, misinformation perpetuated in the media, and the president's own...
Updated: January 6, 2017
In October 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced that he had ordered a pre-dawn invasion of Grenada by nearly 1,900 Marines and armed airborne troops under the code name “Urgent Fury.”...
Updated: January 20, 2010
May 2, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
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