April 2015" Lines began forming around 6 a.m. on Friday for general spectator seats at today's oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges , the case in which the Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold a...
July 28, 2015Amid a spate of cancer diagnoses and deaths among colleagues who worked at Guantanamo Bay, a Navy reserves lawyer who worked on a war court case at the 45-square mile naval base in Cuba has lodged a...
February 23, 2016The Pentagon released a long-anticipated plan outlining the steps the Obama administration will take to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention facility . The document released Tuesday morning...
April 18, 2016Thirteen years ago, I received a letter at work. “Greetings from Hell,” it began. “For those who’ve never been there, that would be a prison in East Texas.” The letter was neatly hand-written with...
May 18, 2016Uncles don’t fare terribly well in history or literature. From Creon to Claudius, Uncle Sam to Uncle Scar, the role of Father’s younger or Mother’s older brother tends to be a dubious one, shaded by...
August 18, 2016...Time is running out, but even if Obama does close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, lawyers like Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights says it doesn't address a fundamental problem...
March 8, 2017We salute Lynne Stewart, longtime friend of CCR, who was the very definition of a people's lawyer and who passed away yesterday. We send our love and condolences to her partner Ralph Poynter, who was...
June 19, 2017The Supreme Court has ruled that six men detained after the September 11 attacks are not legally able to sue top officials from the Bush administration. The men, who are of Arab or South Asian...
About 800,000 young people in the United States are now in legal limbo. President Donald Trump has scrapped an immigration programme introduced by his predecessor, Barack Obama , known as DACA - or...
Updated: September 8, 2017
On this bonus episode of The Activist Files , CCR Communications Director Chandra Hayslett talks to Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei about Pardiss’s visit to the National Memorial for Peace and...
Updated: March 7, 2023
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