August 27, 2015Tariq Ali Abdullah Ba Odah is a detainee at Guantánamo who the government has determined to be a member of al Qaeda and/or Taliban forces. Ba Odah filed a petition for habeas corpus to challenge that...
November 13, 2015After 15 months, two lawsuits, a chancellor's resignation, an academic censure and a boycott, the University of Illinois settled with Steven Salaita on Thursday. The price tag for the university’s...
January 10, 2017...Pointing to the human rights abuses that occurred on his watch, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which has led the legal battle against Guantánamo and represents a number of its...
January 11, 2017, New York – In advance of the Senate confirmation hearing scheduled tomorrow for Representative Mike Pompeo (R-KS) to head the CIA, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued...
January 16, 2017...Yet in Glenn Greenwald’s twisted world, the SEALs are the bad guys. The SEALs need to be the ones looked into. Is invoking the term “war crimes” to mean that they are next on the list for what CIA...
June 19, 2017The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ended a long legal struggle to sue top officials such as former FBI director Robert Mueller and former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft for damages for alleged...
July 12, 2017The Trump administration is systematically and illegally blocking people from applying for asylum in the United States, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in California . Instead of...
January 31, 2018...But the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed a federal court brief this month seeking the release of 11 Gitmo detainees, said Mr. Trump ’s executive order “is not the last word.” “It is...
Join Center for Constructional Rights Board Chair, Katherine Franke and Staff Attorney, Diala Shamas for a conversation with Noura Erakat on her new book, Justice for Some, Law and the Question...
Updated: September 24, 2019
May 19, 2023…The recent swell in legislation affecting transgender patients under 18 comes almost a decade after LGBTQ activists notched a major victory with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v...
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