Gitanjali Gutierrez, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who was the first habeas corpus lawyer to travel to Guantanamo, wrote this op-ed in The Washington Post on CCR client...
May 20, 2008, New York – Newly declassified notes from Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorney Gitanjali Gutierrez’s meetings with her client, Mohammed al Qahtani, earlier this month reveal...
Beginning the date of the inauguration on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration issued a series of anti-LGBTQIA+ executive orders, particularly restricting access to medical care, travel,...
Updated: September 28, 2026
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the South Florida Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) wrote to administrators at Florida...
Updated: August 29, 2013
August 2010By Glenn Greenwald A major legal challenge to one of the Obama administration's most radical assertions of executive power began this morning in a federal courthouse in Washington, DC. Early last...
July 26, 2021Biden’s first Guantánamo transfer The Biden administration has officially transferred Abdul Latif Nasser out of the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison. We are relieved that Mr. Nasser, who has been...
April 23, 2018Muslim Ban to be decided this week [caption align="right"] [/caption] Oral arguments on the Muslim Ban (AKA the Travel Ban and Hawaii v. Trump), are slated for Wednesday. The Supreme Court reinstated...
CCR argues that an appeals court wrongly decided that Congress has the power to forbid federal courts from considering claims by former Guantánamo detainees.
Updated: March 9, 2017
February 2014by Pardiss Kebriaei Since 9/11, the Department of Justice has prosecuted more than 500 terrorism cases, yet there remains scant public understanding of what these federal cases have actually looked...
February 11, 2019The Center for Constitutional Rights meets with Congress Last week, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren and Advocacy Director Nadia Ben-Youssef briefed progressive...
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