November 22, 2017Donald Trump has sustained more than his fair share of political losses during the first 10 months of his presidency, mostly at the hands of the federal courts. It was the federal courts that struck...
On March 21st at Yale University, join Center for Constitutional Rights advocacy director, Nadia Ben-Youssef , who will join the discussion "Engaging the Oppressor: How Activists Approach the...
Updated: March 15, 2019
Tucked amid the jagged mountain ranges of Yemen resides the sleepy town of Bayt Ghazy. Home to an idyllic agrarian community, it also provides the backdrop for the heartrending documentary “Waiting...
Updated: November 14, 2014
Suit on behalf of activist Ken Saro Wiwa seeks to hold multi-national corporation Shell responsible
January 2015Although federal courts have interpreted Washington state’s new anti-SLAPP statute several times, state appellate courts have only just begun to do so, with the first cases making their way to the...
March 2015Some nine months after allowing certification of two classes in Ashker v. Brown (N.D. Cal. No. C 09-5796 CW), Judge Claudia Wilken issued her written order granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Leave to...
April 18, 2016On April 16, the Department of Defense issued a short press release announcing that Mohammed al-Hamiri, a Yemeni citizen held at Guantánamo Bay, had been transferred for release. Hamiri had been...
September 13, 2016Mahmood Khan had no idea that his brother had succumbed to "this poison" of terrorism. When Majid Khan was arrested by Pakistani security forces in 2003, family members — many of whom still live in...
February 10, 2017...Vincent Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Democracy Now on Friday, "This is the first time that I have seen the status of being undocumented looked at as...
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