Habeas corpus, or the Great Writ, is the legal procedure that keeps the government from holding you indefinitely without showing cause. When you challenge your detention by filing a habeas corpus...
Updated: January 11, 2010
December 16, 2013, New York – Today, in response to the transfer of Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdulla Hamood from Guantánamo to Saudi Arabia over the weekend, the Center...
Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol for a panel discussion at the 55th Anniversary of the NYU Law Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program. The program will begin at 3:00 p.m. with...
Updated: October 22, 2013
June 29, 2015CCR and SMUG marched together in the New York City LGBTQ Pride parade.
March 8, 2017We 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...
March 13, 2017In 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...
Updated: April 24, 2018
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...
Updated: July 2, 2020
October 8, 2021...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...
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