On January 11, 2023, the 21st anniversary of the prison's opening, 159 organizations sent a letter to President Biden urging him to prioritize closing Guantánamo and ending indefinited detention...
Updated: January 11, 2023
November 21, 2007, New York, NY – Yesterday, the RAND Corporation issued a report [attached at the bottom of the press release], commissioned by the New York Police Foundation and requested by...
February 19, 2010, New York – In response to the release of the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report on the conduct of the lawyers involved in crafting...
Highlander Center says Tennessee Preservation Trust is unfit steward of legacy August 5, 2022, New Market, TN – A Tennessee organization with a storied history of training civil rights and social...
The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing on August 3rd 2009, of a core member the CCR family, Marilyn Clement. A lifelong social-justice activist who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr...
Updated: December 13, 2010
In episode 57 of The Activist Files, we’ll hear a discussion around Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case that went before the Supreme Court on April 22, 2024. According to the National Homelessness Law...
Updated: May 10, 2024
October 23, 2024 , San Diego, CA – Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals largely affirmed a lower court decision that held unlawful the government’s systematic turnbacks – or “metering” – of...
On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an executive order which purported to establish military commissions to try those captured in the “War on Terror.” Under the order, the...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Attorneys Provide Records to Review Board, Urge al Qahtani’s Release to Care June 15, 2016 – Tomorrow morning Guantánamo detainee Mohammed al Qahtani will have a hearing before a Periodic Review...
Hearing in Consolidated Blackwater-Xe cases on Defendants’ motion to enjoin the parties from making extrajudicial statements The lawsuits Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan, et al. v. Blackwater Lodge and...
Updated: August 5, 2009
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