Carolyn Chambers is Associate Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). She supervises the Administrative Department, overseeing the human resources, finances, IT, and...
January 21, 2018..."As an advocate who's been working on this issue for years, that's really the question we want people to ask: who are these people at Guantanamo?" said Aliya Hussain, a human rights advocate at...
With the world watching with much interest the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia, other issues dogging this administration have somewhat...
Updated: November 3, 2017
March 13, 2020... If you think this sounds Kafkaesque, you aren’t alone. Angelo Guisado, a staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said, “Consistent with fake hearing dates, show trials or no...
January 14, 2022... Mr. Duran’s lawyer, Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said he was informed of the approval after his client was notified of the board’s decision on Monday morning. The...
May 17, 2021, New York 一 Today, the New York State Senate and Assembly introduced the Dignity Not Detention Act , a bill that would end existing and future contracts with Immigration and Customs...
March 6, 2017Muslim ban 2.0 will meet the same resistance in the streets and in the courts. *Photo credit: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
April 18, 2019...The judges concluded that the lack of cooperation in any investigation by the U.S. and others meant that there was a low prospect of obtaining any convictions and it was not in the interests of...
Washington, D.C. – Following Judge Richard J. Leon’s decision today in U.S. District Court ordering the release of five of the six Boumediene habeas defendants, Center for Constitutional...
December 20, 2016As I sat at my desk here in New York and learned that the original sacred fire had been extinguished at Oceti Sakowin, and a new one built , I thought about the time I spent there, at Standing Rock...
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