October 22, 2023...The legislative effort is backed by dozens of human rights groups, including the Adalah Justice Project, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the...
March 2012According to Attorney General Eric Holder, the President of the United States can order the killing of US citizens, far from any battlefield, without charges, a trial, or any form of advance judicial...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will join a distinguished panel of organizers, advocates, and scholars to discuss an intersectional approach to the incoming Trump administration. This event is...
Updated: December 12, 2016
December 11, 2020... Katherine: I think looking at the role of the ATS, it's hard to underestimate just how much impact it had. Kelly Prime: This is Katherine Gallagher, also from the Center for Constitutional Rights...
April 27, 2018...“We put the first demand together in 2007,” Stephens, who is affiliated with the Center for Constitutional Rights, explained of the TVPA case. In 2014, Federal Judge James Cohn ruled that the...
March 28, 2019... This month, lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights representing me and other Palestinians, including two villages, filed a motion to intervene in the settlers’ lawsuit. We are arguing...
August 29, 2019... An attorney pressing the suit on behalf of the Iraqis, Baher Azmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights, welcome the decision and said a trial should go forward promptly. “We hope this decision...
July 22, 2021..."The more individuals who are cleared to be released, the easier it is to close Guantánamo, because the detainee population gets smaller and smaller every day." Yet the Justice Department is at...
February 25, 2024...“The US has created a situation where Israel, a foreign government, can kill US citizens knowing that the US is not going to hold them accountable,” said Maria LaHood, deputy legal director of the...
August 2013" It has been a very bad week for democracy. In particular, it has been a bad week for Americans who have placed the right of the people to know what their government is doing above their own...
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