January 20, 2016Bobby James Moore was sentenced to death by the State of Texas in 1980, when he was 20 years old. He has spent three and a half decades on death row, and the last fifteen years in solitary...
On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an executive order which purported to establish military commissions to try those captured in the “War on Terror.” Under the order, the...
Updated: January 11, 2010
August 28, 2008, New York – On August 22, 2008, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Baach Robinson & Lewis , filed a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United...
July 18, 2017President Trump’s fanatical obsession with erecting a wall along the U.S. Southern Border—for which, of course, Mexico would famously assume the role of benefactor —has yet to result in any actual...
In his recently released memoir Decision Points, George W. Bush admitted that he enthusiastically authorized that certain detainees be waterboarded – or tortured, a crime under domestic and...
Updated: November 10, 2010
Horrific Treatment of Victims Constitutes Torture and War Crimes February 21, 2018, Alexandria, VA – Today, a Virginia federal judge ruled that the treatment of three Iraqi individuals formerly...
Solitary Confinement and Isolation in Federal Prisons: Cruel and Inhuman or Necessary? Albany Law School 80 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208 Rochester Moot Court Room Room 209 in the Main...
Updated: March 10, 2011
May 2, 2022The Descendants Project is trying to prevent construction of a massive grain terminal
November 5, 2018Incidents will not stop until hate stops We extend our deepest condolences to the families of those who were murdered and the communities that have been terrorized. These shootings are inextricable...
To mark the shameful 10th anniversary of indefinite detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo and to call for an end to all unjust detentions, we will be creating a human chain between...
Updated: December 9, 2013
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