Communications Managements Units and the Expansion of Unconstitutional Detention Policies in the post-9/11 Federal Prison System: A discussion with CCR Racial Justice and Government Misconduct...
Updated: April 16, 2010
November 11, 2015Steven Salaita reached a $875,000 settlement with the University of Illinois after he sued the school for firing him because of his tweets during the war on Gaza last year. The university fired...
October 11, 2016The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether former high-ranking government officials can be sued for a "hold until cleared" policy intended to identify potential terrorists in the days after...
CCR attorney Rachel Meeropol will be arguing before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in regards to the cross appeal filed by parties in the case of Turkmen v. Ashcroft . Turkmen v. Ashcroft is a...
Updated: February 8, 2008
December 14, 2018...The complaints arose after Chinyere Ezie, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who works on LGBT and racial justice issues, wrote a now-viral post on Facebook about the...
Representing an Algerian citizen held at Guantánamo since 2002
Updated: April 4, 2022
A class action lawsuit brought against the former Head of the IDF Army Intelligence, which charges that the defendant's participation in the shelling of a UN compound in Qana, Lebanon constitutes war...
Updated: September 26, 2018
August 26, 2015The recent email controversy at the University of Illinois will likely be a subject of discussion at a federal court hearing Thursday in the ongoing Steven Salaita case. Salaita's lawyers filed a...
May 22, 2020...Right now, the “impossible” is happening every day. In Detroit, with COVID-19 bursting the boundaries of our everyday catastrophes, we are seeing astounding — and overdue — changes in police and...
September 11, 2021...A particular organization was on the front lines early on. Just weeks after 9/11, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was helping clients dealing with outright human rights abuses and...
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