In recent years, Congress and the Pentagon have stood in the way of President Obama’s goal of shutting down the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The legislative hurdles have been predictable in a...
...The law firm Milbank has made a prestige endowment to Harvard Law School. It’s called the “Milbank Tweed Student Conference Fund” and, as you might expect, it supports student activities at the...
Before Edward Snowden, before WikiLeaks, and before Watergate, there was The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI . Join us, on March 31, for a free screening of 1971 , an engrossing...
Amid a news cycle crowded with reports about Republican fearmongering and the Obama Administration’s bureaucratic paralysis on closing Guantánamo, a local news article last week from Fort Wayne,...
April 21, 2016, New York – In response to reports of proposed new rules for the controversial military commissions system at Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents men in...
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on July 6, 2016. We will discuss a joint report by Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) and CCR about current immigration home raid practices , especially in light of...
August 4, 2016 New York – In response to reports that some members of the New York State Assembly plan to introduce a “Blue Lives Matter” bill today to add police to the groups covered under existing...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) won its legal challenge to the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy more than three years ago. But suddenly the phones in our offices are...
The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to decide whether high-ranking George W. Bush administration officials — including John Ashcroft , the former attorney general, and Robert S. Mueller III , the...
