Leading human rights groups have come out against President Obama’s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, saying it would simply shift the problem of indefinite detention to U.S. soil...
Pointing to government-friendly rulings on police illegal searches and seizures and Guantánamo detainee rights, some criminal justice reform advocates are greeting President Obama’s nomination of...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, MPowerChange.org, and the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) invite you to a conversation about countering Islamophobia...
S everal years ago, I asked the civil-rights lawyer Michael Ratner, who died Wednesday at age 72, whether he thought he had any chance of prevailing when, with the Center for Constitutional Rights ,...
Last September, in Ashker v. Governor of California , California prisoners reached an historic settlement agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that is...
CCR Board Member Rosemary Corbett shares some thoughts on funding social change. ... These developments point to an underlying strategy that we both believe is necessary to change the economic system...
The Talking Dog : Can you please tell us where were you on 11 Sept. 2001? Pardiss Kebriaei : I was in my third year at law school at the University of Pennsylvania. I was coming out of classes. There...
..."In 2001, it was basically just Michael Ratner running around waving a writ of habeas corpus. We couldn't find even find local legal counsel in some cases," said Baher Azmy, the legal director of...
...A complaint filed with the inspector general for Homeland Security details what two legal advocacy groups call “systemic abuses and violations of the rights of individuals lawfully entering the...
An appeals court in San Francisco hears legal arguments Tuesday on Donald Trump’s executive order blocking some non-citizens from entering the United States. Critics call the order a de facto “Muslim...
