December 6, 2019...“Far from being content with 46 years of circumventing democracy by providing pay-to-play private access to lawmakers for its corporate and conservative members, ALEC is still brazenly attacking...
March 6, 2020...Baher Azmy, the legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the ruling halted Trump’s attacks on the asylum system. “It recognizes that courts can and should preserve this...
April 2, 2022... "Our government owes Sufyian and his mother years of their lives back," Sufiyan's attorney, Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement. "I'm overjoyed that he...
Join the Palestinian American Bar Association for a free virtual event open to the public on November 25, 4 p.m. EST . Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Diala Shamas joins...
Updated: October 30, 2024
February 2012Multiple efforts are under way to rid Michigan of PA 4. The first is a lawsuit brought in June 2011 by the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice and the Center for Constitutional Rights...
November 5, 2021... The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is now considering whether a legal challenge to the state’s practice of denying parole hearings to people serving life sentences for certain second-degree murder...
February 2009President Obama's recent order to bring Guantánamo into full compliance with international law requires US officials to make a fundamental judgment about the difference between mere detention and...
September 2014"Being recruited for a tenured faculty position at a major university is no small feat, nor should it be; tenure represents the pinnacle of an academic career. In my case, it involved numerous...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is honored to be awarded the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award, given annually by the Southern Center for Human Rights to those who have made outstanding...
May 30, 2016...But Wells Dixon, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who is representing some detainees, is hopeful the guilty plea provision will be a big help in closing the facility. After...
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