...“Thousands or millions of peoples lives now depend on this waiver process. It’s become their only hope,” said Diala Shamas, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. “It’s quite possible...
With a conservative Supreme Court majority, it was no surprise the justices upheld Trump's Muslim Ban. But there was a silver lining: In a vote against the racist policy, Justice Breyer cited on page...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights studied the waiver process in a recent report, “ Window Dressing the Muslim Ban .” The authors found that the process was almost entirely random with consular...
Join CCR at Netroots Nation 2018 for this important discussion, which will take place in Room 210 . In 2017, under court order, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI turned over hundreds of...
Join CCR at Netroots Nation 2018 for this short film-series and talk-back, which will take place in Room 223 . The #NoBayouBridge short-film series and panel discussion will detail how a fight to...
CCR Heads to Court in Guantánamo Mass Legal Challenge, Arguing Court Should End the Perpetual Detention of "Forever Prisoners" [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, CCR will challenge...
Amid the national outcry over the family-separation crisis at the border, the Supreme Court last week ruled to uphold President Trump’s Muslim ban . This decision will increase the number of families...
... Yet the lawsuit – filed last week by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, and the Western New York Law Center – is filled with data accusing the...
“[It’s] like we’re buried alive.” That’s how CCR client Sharqawi Al Hajj describes his imprisonment at Guantánamo, as a cemetery. Before he was brought to the island prison, Sharqawi was disappeared...
July 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before a federal judge in a challenge to Donald Trump’s ongoing detention of men at Guantánamo...
