President Obama has failed in his pledge of eight years ago to close the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo. Congressional obstacles, misinformation perpetuated in the media, and the president's own...
Updated: January 6, 2017
September 2, 2021,San Diego, CA – A federal judge declared unlawful the U.S. government’s turnbacks of asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry along the U.S southern border. The court ruled that...
June 5, 2020... "The NYPD's approach to social-distancing enforcement is stop and frisk 2.0," said Darius Charney, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, in a statement. "But since the...
February 1 2, 2014 , New York - The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations-USA (CAIR-USA) sent members of the House of...
April 2011Say what you will about President Obama, but something is undeniable: When it comes to immigration his administration has been consistent in speaking from both sides of its mouth. Take the case of...
New York, July 28th – On Monday, August 1, the City of New York will be asked at a trial in federal court in Brooklyn how it intends to remedy its 40-year history of racial discrimination...
May 10, 2016Animal-rights activists asked the Seventh Circuit to deem the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act unconstitutional for designating nonviolent property damage "terrorism," because two men charged under...
August 15, 2016... "During a phone call before his release, Mr. Hamdoun said he felt happy and hopeful — a remarkable sentiment from a man who has lived through hell in Guantanamo and lost over 14 years of his life...
“It’s not constitutional… This is a historic act of discrimination that singles out in broad fashion one religion, treats them differently, and is motivated by this venomous dislike for Muslims…...
Updated: February 6, 2017
February 21, 2020...Diala is a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security both in the...
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