December 6, 2019... “If the United States doesn’t want to come before the ICC, it should prevent its citizens from committing offenses,” said Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a...
December 11, 2020...Attorneys for a transgender inmate in Georgia recently filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit asking a judge to order the inmate’s transfer to a women’s prison facility for safety reasons. The 105-...
December 1, 2016Now that the International Criminal Court has found “reasonable basis to believe” that U.S. military forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan and at CIA black sites, a prominent human-rights...
February 20, 2020...Aya Saed, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who also is representing the plaintiffs, said the law generally requires all meetings be open to the public. There are exceptions to allow for...
July 2, 2020...Wells Dixon, senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, told VICE News last week that the government’s case falsely painted Mattis and Rahman as terrorists. “The implication...
March 22, 2019...“Settlers confiscated parts of these lands,” Mohammad Salameh, a resident of Anata in the West Bank, explained. “We, the landowners, need this land to be able to live on it. We are prohibited from...
As ICE Raids Escalate, New Platform Highlights ICE Tactics to Help Equip Communities to Exercise Their Constitutional Rights July 23, 2018, New York – The Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) today in...
Democracy Now! speaks with Judge Shira Scheindlin, former United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, about her role CCR's case Floyd v. City of New York , which found the...
Updated: December 28, 2017
November 4, 2015“ Guantánamo Is Leaving Obama With Choices, Neither of Them Simple ” (news article, Nov. 1) is wrong to imply that President Obama has only two choices: fail to close Guantánamo or do so by violating...
July 12, 2017In late December, Celinda Aracely Rodriguez hobbled across the international bridge to request asylum in Hidalgo in the Rio Grande Valley. Immigration officers sent the Guatemalan native back to...
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