Obama Defends Decision to Release Interrogation Memos President Obama spoke at CIA headquarters Monday, defending his decision to release Bush-era memos on controversial interrogation tactics. Former...
...Early this month, a federal judge dismissed a case brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) charging U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Secretary of...
by 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...
Washington, 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...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
It 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...
