Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, CLEAR, and the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton for Supreme Court argument in our case, Tanzin v. Tanvir . CUNY School of Law Professor...
... “The fact that they sought a stay shows that the claimed emergency — which they argued all the way up to the Supreme Court — is largely manufactured,” said Baher Azmy, legal director of the...
The judge handling the habeas appeals for more than 200 detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, ordered government lawyers to prioritize these cases after urging from the detainees' lawyers, including...
...If the Constitution stands for anything, the plaintiffs argue in their suit, which was filed on their behalf by the Center for Constitutional Rights , it must stand for the proposition that the...
Drinan, et al. v. Ford, et al. was an attempt to get an injunction restraining the members of the executive branch from conducting military operations in Cambodia without congressional authority. The...
Majid Khan, the first of the so-clled high-value Guantanamo detainees to have seen a lawyer claims he was subjected to "state-sanctioned torture" while in secret C.I.A. prisons, and he has...
" President Obama was surely right when he said the CIA torture program was a betrayal of our values. But it is far more. The widespread, brutal acts performed in CIA "black sites" were actual crimes...
Last week Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates seemingly turned the criminal justice world upside down. Her tool? A two-page memo to the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons that laid the...
...Pardiss Kebriaei, the attorney of a detainee and who belongs to the New York-based group Center for Constitutional Rights, noted that there isn’t any precedent for a government to adopt the...
...“The case against Mahmoud is nothing but an authoritarian diktat,” [Baher] Azmy said. “ ‘We don’t like what you have to say, so we are going to use the full weight of the federal government to...
