Democracy Now! speaks with Judge Shira Scheindlin, former United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, about her role CCR's case Floyd v. City of New York , which found the...
Updated: December 28, 2017
November 4, 2015“ Guantánamo Is Leaving Obama With Choices, Neither of Them Simple ” (news article, Nov. 1) is wrong to imply that President Obama has only two choices: fail to close Guantánamo or do so by violating...
July 12, 2017In late December, Celinda Aracely Rodriguez hobbled across the international bridge to request asylum in Hidalgo in the Rio Grande Valley. Immigration officers sent the Guatemalan native back to...
October 16, 2019...The attorney general was joined by a coalition of civil rights groups, led by Make the Road New York. Ghita Schwarz, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said she had been “very...
December 6, 2019... “By all accounts, the situation for Yemen’s 24 million people constitutes the largest humanitarian crisis in the world,” said Ibrahim Qatabi of the Center for Constitutional Rights. “Failure to...
A case brought by four former Guantanamo prisoners against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seeking damages for their arbitrary detention and torture.
Updated: July 11, 2011
September 22, 2016...Vincent Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which challenged New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy in court, said the tactic effectively treated “race as a...
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to highlight the issues we work on and draw attention to the experiences of those most...
Updated: February 18, 2025
April 2, 2022...Barhoumi, who lost four fingers in a land mine explosion in Afghanistan, offered to plead guilty to any charges in 2012 in hopes he could receive a fixed sentence and return to his elderly mother...
A case involving the defense of a mentally disabled and mentally ill lawful permanent resident facing deportation from the United States. Mr. Anderson was placed in removal proceedings in January...
Updated: July 7, 2011
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