June 30, 2014, Richmond, VA – Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that victims of torture and abuse in Abu Ghraib prison could pursue legal claims for their abuse against private...
June 2010Mahar Arar's quest to force the U.S. government to come clean about why he was shipped by the Bush administration to Syria and tortured has been bolstered by a letter from Foreign Minister Lawrence...
New York and Madrid, April 13, 2011 – After a two-year delay punctuated by efforts to undermine the Spanish judiciary’s independence, the Obama administration recently told a Spanish...
October 7, 2019Call to action: Tell the Supreme Court to defend the rights of LGBTQ workers [caption align="left"] [/caption] Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear cases to decide whether LGBTQ people are protected...
23 January 2018 Hon. James Mattis Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense c/o U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Rear Admiral Edward B...
Updated: January 25, 2018
January 2009America’s closest allies overseas never understood the Bush Administration’s obsession with torture. “It’s as if an old friend had a stroke and suddenly went delusional,” a British Tory politician...
Arkansas Times v. Waldrip is a case that challenges a 2017 Arkansas anti-BDS law that requires companies that contract with the state to pledge not to boycott Israel or reduce their fees. The Center...
Updated: February 27, 2023
June 16, 2016A Saudi national accused of trying to take part in the September 11 attacks who has been repeatedly tortured gets a chance to plead his case in front of a Guantanamo parole-like board on Thursday...
October 8, 2021... Moyn takes Ratner—the long-time president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who died in 2016—to task for filing Rasul v. Bush to give people indefinitely detained at Guantánamo the...
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