A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily blocked President Trump’s plan to bar nearly all migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of...
Updated: July 26, 2019
Decision Leaves Club Ban in Place June 9, New York –The highest court in New York State has refused to hear an appeal on Fordham University’s ban of Students for Justice in Palestine. Fordham...
Who: David Cole , Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Co-Chair, The Constitution Project Liberty and Security Committee; Argued Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project case on material support in...
Updated: February 16, 2011
On October 7, 2011, Members of Congress wrote to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) with questions and concerns about the policies and practices at the Communications Management Units (CMUs), and...
Updated: October 13, 2011
May 24, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted an important exhibit with a brief to the Supreme Court in the case of Canadian citizen and rendition victim...
Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security...
November 25, 2015This piece was originally published by the Electronic Intifada . When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dismissed my client , Professor Steven Salaita , from a tenured faculty position...
December 31, 2014, New York – In response to the news that five men – three Yemenis and two Tunisians – were transferred from Guantánamo to Kazakhstan yesterday, the Center...
January 15, 2015, New York – In response to the news that four Yemenis were transferred from Guantanamo to Oman and one man to Estonia today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued...
July 19, 2021, New York – In response to news that Abdul Latif Nasser has been transferred out of Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We are relieved that...
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