Alobahy v. Trump was a federal lawsuit on behalf of three Yemeni-Americans against President Trump, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security for the unlawful revocation of...
Updated: September 3, 2019
September 6, 2016Ten years. It’s been exactly a decade since President George W. Bush announced on September 6, 2006 that 14 former CIA prisoners had been brought to Guantanamo. That was when we learned about the...
November 9, 2018... Angelo Guisado is a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights: “The statute governing who can apply for asylum and where, 8 U.S. Code § 1158 , is very clear that an individual who...
April 26, 2017CCR’s offices will be closed on Monday, May 1. But we’re not taking a day off from our commitment to social justice . Monday, May 1, is May Day – International Workers’ Day – an official holiday in...
January 11, 2013, Washington, D.C. – A broad coalition of human rights groups and other like-minded organizations marked the 11th anniversary of the first detained men being jailed at the U.S.-...
St. James Parish’s discriminatory land use system violates the Constitution, has roots in slavery January 28, 2026, New Orleans – Groups representing Black residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley...
January 2012A new federal lawsuit seeks to force the U.S. government to make public “extremely disturbing” videotapes of a Saudi national, Mohammed al-Qahtani, whose abuse at the Guantanamo Bay...
September 15, 2015Back in June, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed a stinging rebuke to the federal government and a significant victory to CCR and our clients in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a case we brought over...
May 2009NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. has been fighting for more than 13 years to make his late father's prediction come true. It will happen this month when relatives of victims of the Nigerian...
February 28, 2019Several immigrants' rights groups allege harassment and one man says he was strip-searched by Customs and Border Protection agents. The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for Constitutional...
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