Derek Lee to be resentenced as court throws out his life-without-parole punishment March 26, 2026, Pittsburgh – Today, in a landmark ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found mandatory life...
December 28, 2020Legal updates in our family separation lawsuit against ICE In 2018, we filed an emergency case to reunite a father whose then 19-month-old son was forcibly taken from him at the Southern border where...
Repeat Deportations Reflect Trump Administration’s Animus Toward Black Migrants, Rejection of International Human Rights Law, Retaliation Against Those Who Protest Rights Violations November 10, 2020...
Ongoing revelations of pervasive and serious sexual violence against children and vulnerable adults by priests and others associated with the Catholic Church in different parts of the world have...
Updated: August 20, 2018
February 18, 2012, New York –Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request for rehearing in the case USA v. El-Mezain, et al . The defendants are five former officers and...
January 28, 2019"Remain in Mexico" policy is a virtual wall and will lead to deaths In response to the announcement that the Trump administration will force asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their...
President-elect Biden has been a supporter of closing the Guantánamo Bay prison since he was a senator. The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomes his support as president, and calls on him to...
Updated: January 18, 2022
Yesterday, the United Nations special rapporteur on racism issued a powerful statement : the United States makes it way too easy for people to receive death-by-incarceration prison sentences,...
November 6, 2013, Richmond, VA – Today, in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel on behalf of four Iraqi men who were tortured at Abu Ghraib, six amici...
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