In a series of rulings issued August 14, 2007, United States District Court Judge Susan Illston rejected Chevron Corporation's final attempts to avoid trial for its involvement in brutal attacks on...
February 19, 2021We invite you all to continue to educate yourselves around the issues confronting Black communities and to contribute to the leaders who are working to create solutions. This week, our call to action...
Attorneys for Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors Say Case Petitioned to SCOTUS Survives June 17, 2021, Washington, D.C. –Today, the United States Supreme Court limited – but did not foreclose – the ability...
On November 9, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for compassionate release in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of Charles Watts, a 51-year-old Black man who is...
Updated: January 5, 2023
As part of its widespread investigation of universities in response to Palestine solidarity organizing, the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce sent a letter to Northwestern University on...
Updated: April 11, 2025
July 18, 2017President Trump’s fanatical obsession with erecting a wall along the U.S. Southern Border—for which, of course, Mexico would famously assume the role of benefactor —has yet to result in any actual...
This year, CCR is going all-in to support the call for a general strike on Monday, May 1 , in solidarity with immigrants and other communities under attack by the Trump administration . Will you join...
Updated: April 26, 2017
Washington, November 1, 2012 – This morning CCR scored a major victory in our long running effort to hold private military contractors responsible for their role in the torture and war crimes...
Updated: December 20, 2012
On Tuesday, March 18, CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy and co-counsel from Patterson Belknap Webb and Tyler have an important oral argument in our case against private military contractor CACI for...
Updated: March 17, 2014
March, 27, 2015 - Today, CCR and other human rights organizations submitted an amicus brief to the Fourth Circuit U.S. Appeals Court in a case concerning the government’s international law...
Updated: March 30, 2015
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