This article originally published at the New York Times, Room for Debate (June 21, 2010). David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and the author, most recently, of “The...
Updated: June 23, 2010
Join CCR for a pre-argument event at Georgetown Law School on Tuesday, December 4 and then come to the Supreme Court the next day for the oral argument and a vigil in support of the men at Guantanamo...
Updated: November 30, 2007
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will join a virtual webinar organized by the Middle East Institute and the Foundation for Middle East Peace. Featuring:...
Updated: November 1, 2023
January 11, 2017Today marks the 15th anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. This morning, CCR’s Aliya Hussain delivered the below remarks at a rally in Washington, D.C.
The Center for Constitutional Rights seeks a third- or fourth-year undergraduate student, recent graduate, or graduate student with a strong commitment to social justice to help with several legal...
Updated: July 13, 2022
January 30, 2014, New York – Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking immediate release of...
October 5, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) learned today of the existence of video and audio tapes of the abusive interrogations of client Mohammed al Qahtani, the...
Drinan, et al. v. Ford, et al. was an attempt to get an injunction restraining the members of the executive branch from conducting military operations in Cambodia without congressional authority. The...
Updated: October 9, 2007
October 7, 2016For 50 years, CCR has been a part of virtually every movement for civil and human rights. We have fought to redistribute power to the oppressed, the under-resourced, the criminalized, and the...
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