Lawyers and civil liberties groups say the legal battle against Bush's expansion of government's powers could last many years and redefine the powers of the executive branch.
Supreme Court ruling in the Center for Constitutional Rights' case upholds detainee rights and eliminates the main reason for putting foreign prisoners in the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...
Detainees in Guantánamo Bay will have access to a federal court to challenge their detention, according to a Supreme Court ruling in the Center for Constitutional Rights' case. Many are expected to...
The Supreme Court ruled in the Center for Constitutional Rights' case Boumediene v. Bush that foreign prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay may challenge their detention in front of a federal judge, going...
Congress moving to pay stop-loss soldiers extra, but the Center for Constitutional Rights asserts that regardless of the money, the policy goes against the basic theory of contracts. You can access...
One month after the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program was disclosed by the New York Times in December 2005, we sued to put an end to it. In the two and a half years since then, an ACLU suit (...
Obama Defends Decision to Release Interrogation Memos President Obama spoke at CIA headquarters Monday, defending his decision to release Bush-era memos on controversial interrogation tactics. Former...
Op-ed columnist praises the Center for Constitutional Rights for being "committed to fairness, justice and the rule of law," while Obama maintains policies similar to those of his...
A federal judge has rejected a series of arguments by lawyers for the private military contractor Blackwater who were seeking to dismiss five war crimes cases brought by Iraqi victims against the...
