January 12, 2016, New York – In response to the president’s State of the Union speech, in which he reiterated his pledge to close the prison at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which...
October 20, 2009, New York – Today, the Supreme Court announced it will hear the case of 13 men who remain imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay despite being cleared for release since 2004 and...
June 26, 2008, New York —Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed one of the first new habeas corpus petitions since the Supreme Court ruled on June 12 that the men at Guantánamo have...
June 2009The Supreme Court has made it harder to prove discrimination on the basis of age, ruling against an employee in his mid-50s who says he was demoted because of his age.
July 2009Gates's arrest hits a nerve with black men.
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Updated: October 19, 2018
CCR is proud to co-sponsor a special event to celebrate the release of a new book by CNN legal analyst and author Jeffrey Toobin called The Oath : The Obama White House and the Supreme Court . Toobin...
Updated: December 6, 2012
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Noor Zafar will join a panel to address the Muslim Ban as well as surveillance, profiling, travel restrictions, registries, and more practices that existed long before Trump...
Updated: March 30, 2017
October 4, 2019...Baher Azmy, legal director at the 53-year-old Center for Constitutional Rights — a group that sees its mission as “fusing litigation, advocacy and narrative shifting to dismantle systems of...
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