June 30, 2017This piece was originally published on the American Constitution Society's ACSblog . Having litigated the case that would become Ziglar v. Abbasi for the last fifteen years, since the summer I...
March 23, 2016At the height of the NYPD’s unconstitutional and discriminatory stop-and-frisk program, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were being stopped every year for a “furtive movement.” Thousands more...
Zalita v. Bush was a petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita, a.k.a. Abdul Ra’ouf Ammar Mohammad Abu Al Qassim. Mr. Abu Al Qassim was conscripted into the Libyan Army when...
Updated: March 9, 2017
Alexis Agathocleous is a Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on issues of mass incarceration, criminal justice, LGBTQ discrimination, gender justice,...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture , and the Tea Project for a night of tea, art, poetry, music, and words by artists, activists, and leaders in the movements to end...
Updated: January 3, 2017
On Episode 32 of The Activist Files , Senior Managing Attorney Shayana Kadidal speaks with Ramzi Kassem about the case of American Muslims who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List in retaliation...
Updated: September 8, 2021
November 15, 2017US Democratic Congresswoman from Minnesota, Betty McCollum has introduced legislation that would require the US Secretary of State to certify that no part of the annual US military aid package to...
NEW YORK, June 13, 2006 – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement regarding the government filing regarding the deaths of Guantánamo detainees...
New York and Madrid, April 14, 2011 – Yesterday a Spanish judge chose to dismiss a politically charged case against six former Bush administration officials for their part in creating a legal...
June 5, 2008, New York – Late yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) received the government's reply brief in their case demanding that the government comply with requests to turn over...
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