May 14, 2020...What’s clear from the notorious death squad leader’s history with the U.S. and its own court system is that many influential people in several of our alphabet agencies do not want Constant on...
April 1, 2022...Ketanji Brown Jackson explained how the Supreme Court decided that even those embattled prisoners had rights. “Judge Jackson was one of many hundreds of lawyers…to challenge this remarkable...
May 17, 2021...Attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights are representing Diamond in her quest to be transferred to a female prison. Her lawsuit, filed in November...
July 28, 2015Amid a spate of cancer diagnoses and deaths among colleagues who worked at Guantanamo Bay, a Navy reserves lawyer who worked on a war court case at the 45-square mile naval base in Cuba has lodged a...
January 26, 2017..."In 2001, it was basically just Michael Ratner running around waving a writ of habeas corpus. We couldn't find even find local legal counsel in some cases," said Baher Azmy, the legal director of...
September 26, 2013, Oakland – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal judge to grant class action status to a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary...
Join the National Lawyers Guild Wednesday, December 6, 6 - 7:30 p.m. for a panel exploring the current conflict, including international and humanitarian law issues, the recent lawsuit filed in...
Updated: December 6, 2023
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney will speak on a panel at MCNY about the Floyd trial and August decision from the judge. All members of the community are welcome to attend. On October 31,...
Updated: November 8, 2013
Join CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren for a program that combines a reflection of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s with a panel discussion on the Civil Rights issues faced by people today...
Updated: January 17, 2014
September 16, 2022... The organizations—including the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Abolitionist Law Center, the Amistad Law Project, Release Aging People in Prison, the Drop LWOP Coalition, the California...
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