New York, August 18, 2011- In the wake of protests and civil disobedience in Chicago yesterday and across the country criticizing the Obama administration’s Secure Communities program,...
Maria Lahood is a visiting assistant clinical professor at Northwestern law school's McArthur Justice Center and senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Maria specializes in...
Updated: November 16, 2007
Our panel will discuss the near completion since 9/11 of the infrastructure for a police state in the United States--including its legal and ideological apparatus. Panelists include: Vincent Warren...
Updated: November 20, 2007
Leading academicians, activists, political figures, and lawyers will discuss a critical, oft-neglected, public policy issue: how police, prosecutorial, and prison-related practices lead to the...
Updated: April 17, 2008
September 14 th , 2010 11:00 am- 12:15 pm Constitution Day Speaker and Lunch Ballroom C Speaker: Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney [center for constitutional rights] Immigration, Human Rights, and the...
Updated: September 9, 2010
Join CCR President Michael Ratner for a special event sponsored by the Lannan Foundation as part of their lecture series on political, economic, environmental and human rights issues. Michael will...
Updated: May 11, 2011
April 2007Justice department asks a federal appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees.
August 2007District court judge Ricardo Urbina dismisses legal challenges by Guantanamo detainees and bars attorneys access to their clients.
May 2007Pentagon lawyer testifies that the Bush administration never planned to provide defense attorneys with the names of detainees.
Rumsfeld justifies the detention of an American-born prisoner captured in Afghanistan.
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