This article was originally posted on January 10, 2011 on IndyBlog Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy an assault weapon?
Updated: January 10, 2011
February 9, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in response to the release of a report on detainees released from Guantánamo by...
December 12, 2007, Washington, DC – A federal appeals court has issued an interim order requiring the government to take “all measures necessary to preserve” evidence relating to Guantanamo detainee...
Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei and Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain for a discussion about their legal and political advocacy for the victims of the so-called U.S. "war on...
Updated: March 31, 2015
June 28, 2017Things could have been so different. The Supreme Court’s 2016–17 term, which ended with a flurry of activity on June 26, underscores how much liberals and progressives lost by not coming out for...
On Friday March 16th as CCR’s Azure Wheeler will be arguing that an element of the settlement agreement—the creation of a unit to house prisoners whom the California Department of Corrections and...
Updated: February 28, 2018
Len Kamdang is the Director of the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where he leads national efforts to combat systemic injustices in the criminal legal...
April 30, 2013, New York – Today, President Obama spoke about Guantanamo at a press conference and said, among other things, "Now Congress determined that they would not let us close it...
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), together with its United States member organization, the Center for Constitutional Rights, warns of a rapidly decaying democracy and rule of law...
January 22, 2010, New York – In response to the announcement that President Obama has decided he will detain 50 of the approximately 200 remaining men at Guantánamo without trial...
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