June 8, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights announced the selection of its new legal director, Baher Azmy. Mr. Azmy is an esteemed lawyer, professor and scholar, who...
Please join us on April 6, 2019 as Center for Constitutional Rights staff attorney, Diala Shamas , speaks on a panel about the fight against the Muslim Ban at this year's Harvard Arab Conference...
This piece was originally published on the American Constitution Society's ACSblog . Having litigated the case that would become Ziglar v. Abbasi for the last fifteen years, since the summer I...
US Democratic Congresswoman from Minnesota, Betty McCollum has introduced legislation that would require the US Secretary of State to certify that no part of the annual US military aid package to...
Stanley Nelson’s latest film, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution , is an important lesson. Not strictly a history lesson, charting the dramatic rise and fall of one of the most vibrant...
Periodically, we gather significant developments and updates from the Center for Constitutional Rights in a concise newsletter that can bring a reader up to speed on work around all of our cases and...
NEW YORK, June 13, 2006 – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement regarding the government filing regarding the deaths of Guantánamo detainees...
New York and Madrid, April 14, 2011 – Yesterday a Spanish judge chose to dismiss a politically charged case against six former Bush administration officials for their part in creating a legal...
June 5, 2008, New York – Late yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) received the government's reply brief in their case demanding that the government comply with requests to turn over...
... The Bush administration opened Guantanamo to create a prison that was beyond the reach of any law. They explicitly chose it so that the US Constitution and other law would not apply. In their...
