The Bush administration’s plan to invade Iraq spurred the largest outcry and anti-war protests in the history of the world. More than ten years and hundreds of thousands of lives later, U.S. veterans...
Join law students, lawyers and organizers from across the U.S. for a one-day conference in New York City that will explore how lawyers can support and build the power of social movements. By...
October 7, 2015, New York – Today, the government officially informed Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed Kamin that the Periodic Review Board (PRB) has cleared him for release. Mr. Kamin, who is from...
Brooklyn, NY, May 6, 2008 - Today, The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Support Haiti Network (ISHN) joined members of the New York City Council and representatives of...
Juneteenth victory! Judge grants RISE St. James access to ancestral burial grounds for Juneteenth memorial services [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, Judge Emile R. St. Pierre of the 23rd...
January 29, 2025, New York – In response to President Trump’s executive order to prepare a massive facility at Guantánamo to detain immigrants, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
January 9, 2016, New York – In advance of the Senate confirmation hearing scheduled tomorrow for Senator Jefferson Sessions as United States Attorney General, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
March 31, 2008, New York – The U.S. government referred capital military commission charges today against Ahmad Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian man who was transferred to Guantánamo from...
Leo Aldridge, Puerto Rico, is a criminal defense attorney in private practice in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He previously served as a trial attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services, and a federal public...
Last week, we went to court with ArchCity Defenders and co-counsel to challenge St. Louis County’s unconstitutional "Wanted" system to certify a plaintiff class of thousands of people who’ve been...
