October 14, 2015Pope Francis had to backtrack after he outraged the victims of pedophile clerics by speaking sympathetically, during his trip to the United States, about how the scandal had affected bishops and...
November 25, 2015My heartiest congratulations go out to the Center for Constitutional Rights and their client Professor Steven Salaita, who deservedly was awarded $875,000--far less than the assumed amount of wages...
February 23, 2016President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined his long-awaited plan to close the Guantánamo Bay military detention center in Cuba, but rights groups immediately condemned the proposal as a series of “...
February 26, 2020... Katherine Gallagher came to talk to us just after speaking at the hearings at the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the judges’ decision not to allow a formal investigation into alleged war...
August 21, 2020...“We are elated that the families who lost loved ones in the 2003 massacres have won this important victory,” said Beth Stephens, a cooperating attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights...
January 20, 2022...Even after the official end of the war on Afghanistan, the sense one gets of Guantánamo from the press is that it’s lamentable, yet somehow unchangeable. Outrageous, yet somehow acceptable...
December 2014Our political leaders should not begin to offer solutions for a problem if they won’t even name it: systemic, institutional racism exists in police forces throughout our country. http://www...
November 2, 2017WASHINGTON — President Trump wants the death penalty for the suspect in New York City's terror-inspired truck attack, but his advocacy could make a successful prosecution more difficult, legal...
August 13, 2015In 1980, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Jerry Hartfield's murder conviction and ordered a new trial. But the trial never happened. Twenty-six years later, Hartfield crafted a handwritten...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon will join a panel discussion on the current state of the Guantanamo military commissions. The event is organized by the Center on National Security at Fordham...
Updated: February 5, 2019
Pages
