Human rights groups are praising provisions in the Senate version of an annual defense policy bill that would allow detainees at Guantanamo Bay to plead guilty in civilian courts and get emergency...
Detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could plead guilty to criminal charges in civilian court via video teleconference under a provision being considered by the Senate that could open a new avenue to...
Please join us for an evening honoring the remarkable life and legacy of CCR President Emeritus Michael Ratner (1943–2016). Doors open at 6:30 PM. Please register : the event is free, but space may...
Reports Examine Atrocity Crimes, Minority Stress, International Law May 22, 2016, Kampala and New York – Today, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released...
Last September, in Ashker v. Governor of California , California prisoners reached an historic settlement agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that is...
The Obama administration is defending former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and his FBI director Robert Mueller III in the U.S. Supreme Court over claims they are liable for their roles in the...
Join CCR and the ACLU of Southern California for a conversation and book signing with former CCR board member David Cole, Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown and author of Engines of...
We lost a great light last week. On a Sunday morning in mid-November, 2001, when September 11 was more lived reality than political symbol, my wife Sandra Babcock and I were reading the paper at our...
...“There’s a lot of skepticism or distrust that the criminal justice system as it exists in our country is really capable of holding police officers who break the law accountable for their crimes,”...
As Marcia Coyle reported last week in The National Law Journal , and as I predicted back in December, the Solicitor General has filed a petition for certiorari in Ashcroft v. Turkmen , challenging...
