Days before the New Year, the Bush Administration worked through Congress to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over the fate of the detainees at Guantánamo despite a June 2004 Supreme Court ruling...
December 14, 2010, Madrid, Spain – Today, two leading human rights groups filed papers urging a Spanish judge to open a criminal investigation into the role of former Bush administration...
May 6, 2008, Washington, D.C. — In a first-of-its-kind hearing, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorney Emi MacLean and other Guantánamo attorneys today told Representatives on the House...
December 12, 2008, New York – This week, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a bi-partisan report almost two years in the making on the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, proving, beyond...
Attorneys Say Case Is Part of Broader Assault on Human Rights Defenders March 6, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Last night, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) moved to dismiss a meritless...
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April 11, 2013, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, 25 prominent human rights and civil liberties organizations sent a joint letter to President Obama urging the swift closure of Guant...
Federal Court Blocks Trump Asylum Ban [caption align="right"] [/caption] A federal court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban last week while we work to get a preliminary...
August 5, 2014, New York – Today, rights groups filed a lawsuit seeking to compel the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to comply...
Fordham University Students Win Landmark Fight to Establish Palestine Club Five Fordham University students, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, have won a landmark legal victory...
