With the Supreme Court due to decide whether it will take up once more the case of the Guantánamo detainees and their right to habeas corpus, Senator Arlen Specter on March 22, 2007 submitted an...
May 19, 2008, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) requested hearings on a new federal database that would require the collection of millions of new DNA samples and keep...
Please join CCR for oral arguments on Wednesday, December 19 th at 9:30 AM PST in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump , a federal lawsuit brought with the American Civil Liberties Union and the...
Updated: December 18, 2018
November 1, 2007, New York, NY – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement against the nomination of Michael Mukasey for the next Attorney General of the United States...
Center for Constitutional Rights President Michael Ratner - and the winner of this year's Puffin/Nation Prize - was recently interviewed by truthout on Guantanamo as well as the CIA's destruction of...
May 4, 2010, Washington, DC – Today Councilmembers Phil Mendelson, Jim Graham introduced the “Secure Communities Act of 2010” with the unanimous support of the Council. This is a...
May 12, 2014, New York – In response to revelations in a Sunday New York Times article, “New York Police Recruit Muslims to Be Informers,” Muslim Advocates and the Center for...
Letter from our comrades in Uganda: "URGENT CALL FOR SOLIDARITY AFTER THE RECENT PASSAGE OF THE ANTI HOMOSEXUALITY BILL IN THE UGANDAN PARLIAMENT. New York City Action will occur at 5:00 p.m. in...
Updated: February 10, 2014
September 8, 2017This week, CCR made an emergency request in the district court in Washington, DC, for an independent medical evaluation of Sharqawi Al Hajj , a 43-year-old citizen of Yemen who remains detained at...
February 20, 2020...Aya Saed, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who also is representing the plaintiffs, said the law generally requires all meetings be open to the public. There are exceptions to allow for...
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