October 23, 2017Should the U.S. Supreme Court be the court of the world? In the 18th century, two feuding Frenchmen inspired a one-sentence law that helped launch American human rights litigation into the 20th...
On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 8:30 a.m., the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati will hear oral argument in Phillips v. Snyder from CCR co-counsel, the Sugar Law Center. Phillips v...
Updated: July 28, 2016
September 22, 2017Thirteen years after leaving Abu Ghraib prison, and nine years after filing suit in federal court, a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before a judge in Alexandria, Va., on Friday...
“Friends of the Court” Urge Judicial Review for Post-9/11 Abuses December 28, 2016, Washington, D.C. – Late yesterday, in the last case to be heard by the Supreme Court under President Obama, civil...
Melinda Butterfield is Finance Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She provides primary assistance in the areas of accounts payable, accounts receivable, and maintenance of bank, credit...
Declarations included from former Biden State Department official Josh Paul and from plaintiffs December 23, 2023, New York – Hours after the U.S. abstained on a United Nations Security Council...
Also, Members of Congress, Scholars, NGOs, State Attorneys General File Six Amicus Briefs in Support of Ongoing Lawsuit SAN DIEGO – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Center for...
On February 17, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined more than 70 organizations calling for the Biden administration to repeal ICC sanctions ( PDF of the letter ) 80 Non-Governmental...
Updated: February 26, 2021
September 2, 2021,San Diego, CA – A federal judge declared unlawful the U.S. government’s turnbacks of asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry along the U.S southern border. The court ruled that...
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