March 2009Washington, DC - The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday to explore setting up a commission to investigate and report on potentially criminal policies of the Bush administration...
June 2013by Shayana Kadidal, Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney There is something very wrong with this picture: Today I am in a federal court arguing that the press and public have a right to...
January 21, 2021... In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights urged the Biden administration to close the prison, saying, “Today marks the beginning of the 20th shameful year of Muslim men being...
Israeli Policies In Jerusalem: A Case Of The Mamilla Cemetery This is a panel discussion featuring Professor Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia Unversity, and...
Updated: April 12, 2010
On Wednesday, the trailblazing attorney Michael Ratner died at the age of 72. In recent years, Ratner served as the chief attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and became a leading critic of...
Updated: May 12, 2016
March 22, 2018... On the 15th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Center for Constitutional Rights in the U.S. renewed its call for the U.S. to pay war reparations to the people of Iraq. This is one...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is honored to be awarded the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award, given annually by the Southern Center for Human Rights to those who have made outstanding...
September 13, 2021It was one of those unseasonably warm winter days that makes you fear for the future of the planet. Three lawyers were sitting at a conference table in the lower Manhattan offices of the Center for...
June 19, 2017More than 15 years after allowing sweeping post-9/11 detentions, the government officials who implemented the policies are off the hook. Top officials in the Bush administration, including former...
Please join us Thursday September 24 th to volunteer at The Center for Constitutional Rights for a day. If you are interested, please contact An-Tuan Williams at
[email protected] . Lunch will...
Updated: September 11, 2009
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