July 10, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
December 10, 2007 - On Monday, December 10, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in a Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case that struck down portions of the 1996 Antiterrorism and...
CCR’s representation of Guantánamo prisoner and victim of CIA torture Majid Khan.
Updated: February 2, 2023
Derek Lee to be resentenced as court throws out his life-without-parole punishment March 26, 2026, Pittsburgh – Today, in a landmark ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found mandatory life...
CCR and Palestine Legal provided a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in advance of his March 2017 report to the UN Human...
Updated: January 4, 2017
Migrant Justice Leaders at Risk of Deportation for Engaging in Protected First Amendment Activity November 14, 2018, Burlington, VT – Today, Vermont-based Migrant Justice filed a lawsuit in federal...
Yesterday, the United Nations special rapporteur on racism issued a powerful statement : the United States makes it way too easy for people to receive death-by-incarceration prison sentences,...
March 6, 2020...Human rights groups welcomed Thursday's ruling. "Too many ICC states have cooperated with the U.S. to set up the global torture programme, we now call on these same states to cooperate with the...
CCR is providing legal support and criminal defense to the protesters who engaged in civil disobedience (CD) as part of the New Sanctuary Movement’s (NSM) on-going campaign around immigrant...
Updated: March 19, 2010
January 27, 2011 - In recent remarks on U.S.-Latin American relations made at the Brookings Institute, Arturo Valenzuela, a State Department official with responsibility for the region, commented...
Updated: January 28, 2011
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