Center for Constitutional Rights Says President Lacks Authority to Detain Prisoner November 30, 2016, Washington – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit challenging the...
December 2, 2016On September 13, I traveled to the front-line border with ISIS, at the outskirts of Himreen mountain which is next to Hawija. I met tens of women who had just crossed the separating mountain on foot...
Trump Administration Agrees to Terms in First Amendment Suit Days Before Election October 28, 2020 , Burlington, VT – In a settlement to a major federal lawsuit, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...
Georgetown University in Qatar will host the Reimagining Palestine conference September 20 - 22, 2024 . Some of the world’s leading academics and practitioners will gather for a thought-...
Updated: September 12, 2024
Al-Jundi v. Estate of Oswald is a $2.8 billion civil damages suit filed in 1974 by survivors of what came to be known as the Attica Uprising. They first sued various New York State officials,...
Updated: March 31, 2008
In October 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced that he had ordered a pre-dawn invasion of Grenada by nearly 1,900 Marines and armed airborne troops under the code name “Urgent Fury.”...
Updated: January 20, 2010
April 30, 2013, New York – Today, President Obama spoke about Guantanamo at a press conference and said, among other things, "Now Congress determined that they would not let us close it...
CCR is pleased to cosponsor the next No Separate Justice vigil, which will focus on the U.S. government’s use of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) and highlight the case of Ahmed Abu Ali who has...
Updated: May 23, 2017
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a hearing in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court regarding its investigation of crimes against humanity and war crimes...
Updated: November 25, 2019
Please join Center for Constitutional Rights executive director, Vince Warren and new board member, Professor Justin Hansford, at Building a Global Justice Movement where they, and their fellow...
Updated: February 5, 2019
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