Baher Azmy explains why a new Trump administration asylum rule, recently blocked by a judge, would have been “a de facto end to asylum on the southern border, except for a small population of...
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August 7, 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...
October 8, 2021... Just 35% of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of immigration, down from 43% in April, when it was already one of Biden’s worst issues, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC...
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May 8, 2026“What LGBTQ+ people are living through now literally feels ripped from the pages of dystopian fiction,” said Chinyere Ezie, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Read the...
The Military Commissions Act was prompted, in part, by the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2006 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld which rejected the President’s creation of military commissions by...
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November 3, 2017Following Tuesday’s terror attack in Lower Manhattan, President Donald Trump suggested that he might send the suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, to the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, where the US has been...
Jeffrey Weinrich is the Finance Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He oversees all finance operations including general accounting, creation and monitoring of the organizational and...
March 5, 2018...Trump's decision is "unsurprising given Trump's deep-seated racism, his well-documented antipathy toward all Muslims, and his endless puffing and posturing. The entire Trump White House is stacked...
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