June 7, 2024...That lack of attention makes it easy to forget that more than two decades after its establishment as a detention camp for suspects in the War on Terror, 30 men are still being held at Guantánamo...
The Military Commissions Act was prompted, in part, by the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2006 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld which rejected the President’s creation of military commissions by...
Updated: January 11, 2010
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Updated: May 10, 2011
November 21, 2019... "We are asking the court to reinstate the jury verdict," says Beth Stephens, an attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that has been litigating...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will join a panel to discuss and explore the appropriate role of, and effective avenues for, legal practitioners and students in support of the growing Movement...
Updated: February 27, 2017
“Supreme Court Not a Reliable Source of Justice” September 23, 2020, New York – In advance of Donald Trump’s nomination to fill the seat of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
April 2015Experts at the forum, which took place at Hunter College and previewed the country’s upcoming human rights review by the United Nations, acknowledged that the U.S. is not typically considered an...
June 7, 2023...The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights condemned in a statement CUNY Chancellor’s and Board of Trustees’ criticism of the graduation speech by Mohammed, chosen by her fellow students...
October 2014"The de Blasio administration filed the brief after two groups appealed a judge’s decision to toss a suit alleging the NYPD illegally spied on people at mosques, restaurants and school in...
August 21, 2020... "What is notable about this parallel effort by the ICC to investigate Israel is that the NGOs and individuals pursuing both the Israel case and the U.S. case are closely related. Specifically,...
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