The judge gave the government 40 hours to appeal the decision before Mr. Khalil must be released June 11, 2025, Newark, NJ – A federal judge granted Mahmoud Khalil’s request for a preliminary...
July 19, 2025, WASHINGTON, D.C. — After 125 days imprisoned in El Salvador’s notorious “megaprison,” the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), Venezuelan nationals Edicson Quintero Chacón and Jose...
New York, October 8, 2008 — Yesterday, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York set a trial date of February 9, 2009 for a human rights and racketeering case...
October 24, 2011 - In light of last Thursday’s official apology from the Guatemalan government to the family of President Arbenz for the coup d’état and subsequent human rights...
Biden, Blinken, and Austin claim “foreign policy” decisions are exempt from judicial review; legal team argues in appeal reply brief submitted today that aiding and abetting genocide can never be a...
In September 1988, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) won a significant victory for the Nicaraguan humanitarian aid campaign. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas did...
Updated: October 22, 2007
On November 9, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for compassionate release in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of Charles Watts, a 51-year-old Black man who is...
Updated: January 5, 2023
May 18, 2015, New York and Chicago – Today Palestine Solidarity Legal Support (Palestine Legal), in conjunction with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), released findings on the rising trend...
December 28, 2020Legal 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...
September 10, 2018CCR is excited to be part of a new coalition, Protect the Protest (PTP), which launched Tuesday. PTP brings together civil liberties, human rights, and environmental groups to push back against...
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