Leading human rights groups have come out against President Obama’s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, saying it would simply shift the problem of indefinite detention to U.S. soil...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) on Monday, March 14th at 6:30 pm at Impact Hub in Washington, DC for an intimate...
“The U.S. government’s estimate of civilian casualties is misleading at best and, at worst, a distortion of the reality on the ground,” said Omar Shakir, a legal expert who has extensively studied...
On November 9, under a grey sky with light rain, I drove to federal court in Springfield, MA, to hear summary arguments in Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) vs. Scott Lively , a civil lawsuit in which...
When Acting Solicitor General Ian Gershengorn took the lectern today in Ziglar v. Abbasi , he attempted to paint a portrait of déjà vu all over again. The three consolidated cases before the Supreme...
...A complaint filed with the inspector general for Homeland Security details what two legal advocacy groups call “systemic abuses and violations of the rights of individuals lawfully entering the...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren joins Mechthild Prinz, forensic expert and associate professor at John Jay College, on The Brian Leher Show to discuss the arrest of a suspect in Karina Vetrano's...
The Supreme Court ruled former high-ranking officials in the George W. Bush administration, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, could not be held...
The Supreme Court on Monday said former George W. Bush administration officials can’t be held liable for the unlawful detainment and abuse suffered by undocumented immigrants detained after the 9/11...
A federal judge has set a Monday deadline for the environmental entity Earth First to explain what he says appears to be discrepancies in its argument that it can’t be sued for opposing the Dakota...
