March 5, 2010, New York – In response to reports that the Obama administration may reverse course and recommend Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attack on...
January 31, 2013, New York – In light of confirmation hearings beginning today for Senator Chuck Hagel to be President Obama’s next Secretary of Defense, the Center for Constitutional...
November 1, 2017The attorneys representing detainees at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, blasted President Trump’s suggestion to send the suspect in the New York City terror attack there as “deluded” and...
Celine Zhu is a Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on issues of sexual and gender-based violence, LGBTQI+ persecution, discriminatory policing, environmental...
This Important Decision Comes After ICE Sent Mr. Khalil to a Detention Facility in Louisiana, Almost 1500 Miles Away From His Family April 1, 2025, Newark, N.J. – The U.S. District Court for the...
Legislature passed 2018 critical infrastructure amendment at behest of oil and gas industry to restrict pipeline protests, plaintiffs say February 24, 2025, New Orleans – Today before the Fifth...
Previous Program Could Serve as Model for Trump, Attorneys Say January 3, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and DRUM – South Asian Organizing Center sent Freedom of...
The Department of Homeland Security and FBI have warned for some time of ongoing domestic terrorism threats from right-wing radical extremist groups. The events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021...
Updated: February 18, 2021
September 13, 2018...If Turkey, as an ally of the U.S., were to report a suspicion of support for terrorism, "surely it would result in placement on the list," says American attorney Shane Kadidal of the Center for...
September 8, 2023...Ms. Wunsch, who had filed a supporting brief for the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of 26 women’s organizations seeking to abolish the [marital rape] exemption, called the ruling “an...
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