AL ODAH/BOUMEDIENE LEGAL ARGUMENT AND IMPLICATIONS Boumediene v. Bush: Whether the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600, validly stripped federal court jurisdiction...
Updated: July 19, 2010
March 4, 2013, New York – In response to news from their attorneys that most of the men at Guantanamo have been on hunger strike for more than three weeks, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Board Members Radhika Balakrishnan and Chandra Bhatnagar & Executive Director Vince Warren invite you to the Annual Social Justice Throwdown A fundraiser for The Center for Constitutional Rights...
Updated: April 12, 2011
Please join us on Thursday, Sept. 26 for oral arguments on class certification in Ashker v. Brown , our federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California. In the...
Updated: September 19, 2013
June 3, 2019We're helping movements challenge oppressive systems with FOIA requests [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, the Center for Constitutional Rights launched the Open Records Project : FOIA...
August 21, 2013 – Today, in response to the sentencing of Pfc. Chelsea Manning, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement. We are outraged that a whistleblower and a...
James Madison once said that “a popular government without information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” The challenge Madison...
Updated: March 1, 2019
This will be a strategic workshop on raising the stakes and the intensity for the immigration debate through direct action. By using lessons learned from the "Bring Jean Home" campaign in...
Updated: March 19, 2010
On Wednesday, February 3rd, join Communities United for Police Reform, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York Civil Liberties Union's Teen Activist Project for a conversation...
Updated: January 28, 2021
Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of punishing people who resist forced labor in Alabama’s majority-Black prisons November 20, 2024, Montgomery, AL – Yesterday, five incarcerated workers brought...
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