We salute Lynne Stewart, longtime friend of CCR, who was the very definition of a people's lawyer and who passed away yesterday. We send our love and condolences to her partner Ralph Poynter, who was...
In the final hearing of the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi , a case 15 years in the making for Rachel Meeropol ’02, senior staff attorney at the Center...
On April 25th, the Supreme Court will hear Trump v. Hawaii, one of the legal challenges to the Trump administration's Muslim Ban, which has been blocked by the courts time and time again. The night...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Dream Unfinished , and Lincoln Center for a live community reading of Frederick Douglass's speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of...
...In 2008, the United States Supreme Court ruled that people imprisoned at Guantánamo can challenge their imprisonment by filing writs of habeas corpus. And in 2020, a federal appeals court panel...
... I chose this website for more clarity on #BlackAugust. Here’s an excerpt from the Center for Constitutional Rights. Black August honors the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of...
Re “ After Issues in Stop-and-Frisk Case, Court Alters Rules on Judge Assignments ” (news article, Dec. 24): Your article suggests that our stop-and-frisk case, Floyd v. City of New York, somehow “...
...In a desperate effort to draw attention to Bakhouch’s enduring incarceration, the Center for Constitutional Rights, or CCR, published an open letter with signatories from the American Civil...
New rules from the Obama Justice Department threaten to return Guantanamo Bay to the legal black hole it was in during the early days of the George W. Bush administration. The rules, which began...
We look at the extraordinary story from Guantánamo of a father and son who were held for many years and what became of them after their release. Abdul Nasser Khantumani and his son Muhammed were...
