Sadaf Doost is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on supporting the Afghan people in the wake of the Taliban takeover, defending Palestine liberation...
Unhoused at high rates, LGBTQIA+ people face dire threat from such laws, which are cruel and unusual punishment, amicus brief says April 3, 2024, Washington, D.C. – The Supreme Court should rule that...
Now, as the Supreme Court considers Grants Pass v. Johnson, a landmark case poised to determine the rights of people who have no choice but to sleep outside during a housing crisis unprecedented in...
...“This is a historic trial that we hope will deliver some measure of justice and healing for what President Bush rightly deemed disgraceful conduct that dishonored the United States and its values...
...The plaintiffs suing CACI are represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a human rights organization. The group won a $5 million settlement in 2013 in a similar case against the Titan...
... Baher Azmy , legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and lead counsel for the plaintiffs said, “We are of course disappointed by the jury’s failure to reach a unanimous verdict in...
...The plaintiffs can seek a retrial. Asked if they would do so, one of their lawyers, Baher Azmy with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said that “the current expectation is that we’ll continue...
...In April, I sat in on the closing arguments of Al Shimari v. CACI , a federal lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of three victims of torture at Abu Ghraib against...
...A judge on Friday ordered a retrial over allegations that a Virginia-based military contractor contributed to the abuse and torture of detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades...
July 1, 2024, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling today that presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for acts taken as part of their “core constitutional duties...