It has been one week since a group of armed protestors started their occupation of a federal government building at a wildlife refuge in Oregon. Executive Director at the Center for Constitutional...
Updated: January 25, 2016
June 19, 2017More than 15 years after allowing sweeping post-9/11 detentions, the government officials who implemented the policies are off the hook. Top officials in the Bush administration, including former...
November 21, 2019... “These asylum seekers have a deep commitment to following our laws in seeking protection, and we are relieved to see that their decision to follow our government’s instructions to wait in Mexico...
February 17, 2021... Just one day ago, a coalition of civil liberties, press freedom, and human rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International USA, Center for Constitutional Rights...
January 2010The legal problem cited by the judge when he threw out the indictments against Blackwater guards was obvious to American government lawyers within days of the shooting. “It is regrettable that the...
June 17, 2013, Baltimore, MD – As the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning enters its third week, a federal district court in Baltimore heard arguments today on whether to grant members of the press...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak on the opening plenary of the Animal Rights National Conference titled Activist Repression: Government and corporate repression of animal and...
Updated: June 28, 2013
June 2, 2015A Guantanamo Bay inmate has alleged that the Central Intelligence Agency has used sexual abuse and more forms of torture than what were previously disclosed. Majid Khan, a former inmate turned...
October 21, 2016Back in July, racial equity advocacy group Color of Change partnered with the Center for Constitutional Rights to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information related to the...
April 27, 2017The New York Police Department will begin one of the most controversial experiments in policing on Thursday when it outfits some officers in Washington Heights with body cameras. Unfortunately the...
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