February 28, 2012, Washington D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that will determine whether corporations can be sued in U.S. courts for their complicity in...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent Illinois State Senators on the Higher Education Committee a letter on March 4, 2014 urging them to oppose pending legislation that would withhold state...
Updated: April 3, 2014
January 18, 2017The Supreme Court considered Wednesday whether high-level U.S. government officials can be held liable for the alleged unconstitutional treatment of a group of noncitizens detained after the...
This article originally published at the New York Times, Room for Debate (June 21, 2010). David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and the author, most recently, of “The...
Updated: June 23, 2010
April 2015"Lawyers for a professor who contends he was wrongly denied a position at the University of Illinois argue that the school had a binding contract with him when it told him he wouldn't get the job,...
May 2010In a hearing of the House Select Committee on Intelligence earlier this year, Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis C. Blair testified that the President authorizes such operations if it...
January 27, 2011 - In recent remarks on U.S.-Latin American relations made at the Brookings Institute, Arturo Valenzuela, a State Department official with responsibility for the region, commented...
Updated: January 28, 2011
by Vincent Warren, Executive Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights Two big things happened in the last week, and they're both going to require our attention for the next four years and...
Updated: November 6, 2014
Israeli forces have killed more than 600 Palestinians waiting for food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites
August 10, 2017Two weeks ago, on the 102nd anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, I attended the Black Alliance for Just Immigration’s (BAJI) Black-centered delegation to the U.S. Southern border in San Diego,...
Pages
