Descendants in Cancer Alley brought suit to protect historic Black community and ancestral gravesites from massive grain elevator August 4, 2023, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – Today, a...
July 25, 2019...The American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights have challenged the policy, saying it violates domestic and international law and the...
September 3, 2024, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights is now representing former Board Chair and Columbia Law Professor Katherine Franke, alongside cooperating counsel Kathleen Peratis,...
Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain is a lawsuit against Francisco Sosa for wrongly detaining Dr. Humberto Alvarez-Machain. Mr. Alvarez-Machain charged Sosa and his other captors with violating international...
Updated: October 9, 2007
September 22, 2017Thirteen years after leaving Abu Ghraib prison, and nine years after filing suit in federal court, a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before an Alexandria judge Friday that they...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and our allies for an online vigil to mark the 19th anniversary of the opening of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. In previous years,...
Updated: December 28, 2020
April 2011More than a third of Guantanamo detainees since 2002 have been considered "high-risk," according to 79 individual military assessments obtained by the secrets-spilling organization...
February 21, 2019The recent blatant power grab coming out of the White House is a lot to digest. For many, the feelings of depression and disgust are commonplace when thinking about the political leadership in...
July 17, 2019...The ACLU was joined by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights in the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California...
September 11, 2019... It did not take long for attorneys the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) to respond to the latest news...
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