May 10, 2021Shifting power to the people beyond Biden’s first 100 days Today we are launching our latest federal policy agenda titled “Shifting Power to the People: A Rights-based Vision for Biden & the...
Michael Ratner devoted four decades of his life at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a staff attorney, legal director, and board president until his untimely death in 2016. We miss him...
Updated: June 2, 2021
September 2, 2021For the last twenty years, the Center for Constitutional Rights has stood alongside our courageous clients and their supporting communities, activists, storytellers, and a broad cadre of other...
Site Provides Historical Context and Resources Around Reckoning With 20 Years of Injustice September 2, 2021, New York – Ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy will participate in a town hall organized by the Project On Government Oversight . Twenty years on, the repercussions of 9/11 are still felt...
Updated: September 10, 2021
New Memorandum from Leading Civil Rights Advocates Documents the Most Egregious Federal Programs that Surveil, Profile, and Criminalize Black, African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian...
September 10, 2021... Legal experts told Middle East Eye that while efforts to rein in the 1991 and 2002 war power authorisations were a positive development, the 2001 AUMF would likely remain in place in some shape...
September 13, 2021It was one of those unseasonably warm winter days that makes you fear for the future of the planet. Three lawyers were sitting at a conference table in the lower Manhattan offices of the Center for...
September 8, 2021... The U.S. government reaction to 9/11 was “not just a series of haphazard policies or incidental responses, but a profound ideological construct that affected our entire political and legal...
September 6, 2021...The Center for Constitutional Rights courageously challenged the detentions of “enemy combatants” at Guántanamo Bay. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International argued for accountability for...
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