...The clemency letter provided a harsh critique of the legal framework and C.I.A. detention system that the Bush administration established after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the legacy of which...
Last week, for the first time ever, an international body asked questions about the Vatican’s handling of widespread and systemic rape and sexual violence. Last Wednesday, survivors of rape and...
After all three NYPD officers charged in the killing of Sean Bell were acquitted, many organizations, including CCR and Peoples' Justice (www.peoplesjustice.org) called for significant changes to the...
2009-04-06 Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for 17 Uighurs imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay asked the Supreme Court to recognize that the right to habeas corpus requires a remedy when a...
July 11, 2014 – Today, in response to the indictments of animal rights activists Tyler Lang and Kevin Olliff on federal terrorism charges for allegedly releasing 2,000 mink and foxes from fur...
...The great human rights attorney and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights Michael Ratner represented Assange, who was his last client. Michael died in 2016. Heidi Boghosian, myself and...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, CLEAR, and the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton for Supreme Court argument in our case, Tanzin v. Tanvir . CUNY School of Law Professor...
On May 15, 2018, CCR sent a letter to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposing S.J. Res. 59, the 2018 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, also known as the "Corker-Kaine...
The Justice Department and the CIA's internal watchdog unit yesterday began a joint preliminary inquiry into the spy agency's destruction of hundreds of hours of videotapes showing interrogations of...
