The post-9/11 era has defined nearly every aspect of the 21st century. Its most striking ideologies, laws, and policies -- boundless executive powers, a secret and global torture program, indefinite...
Attorneys ask investigating judge to subpoena William Haynes as part of criminal case October 12, 2016, New York, Paris, Berlin – Today, supported by the New York-based Center for Constitutional...
CCR has launched an investigation into the rendition and torture of Maher Arar, a Syrian born Canadian citizen. Mr. Arar, who was arrested by U.S. officials while in transit at John F. Kennedy...
Brittany Thomas is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she challenges abusive police practices and inhumane immigration policies. She is a graduate of the...
On September 5, 2012, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, plaintiff Muhammad Salah, a U.S. citizen residing in Illinois, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of...
Call Rule “Cruel, Racist, and Patently Unlawful” August 12, 2019, New York – In response to the Department of Homeland Security’s publication of a new regulation, “Inadmissibility on Public Charge...
April 2, 2015, Paris/Berlin/New York – Today, in a case seeking to hold U.S. officials accountable for the torture and other serious mistreatment of three French citizens formerly detained at...
September 28, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School released a report documenting the U.S. government’...
Legal updates in our family separation lawsuit against ICE In 2018, we filed an emergency case to reunite a father whose then 19-month-old son was forcibly taken from him at the Southern border where...
May 14, 2018 – Below is a statement by human rights defenders, known as the #JusticeDelegation, after returning from a visit to Palestine and Israel co-organized by the Center for Constitutional...
