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...
CCR Heads to Court in Guantánamo Mass Legal Challenge, Arguing Court Should End the Perpetual Detention of "Forever Prisoners" On Wednesday, CCR will challenge Donald Trump’s ongoing detention of men...
“[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...
Guantánamo: there have to be limits, detainees must be released Last Wednesday, we argued before a federal judge in Washington D.C. to challenge Donald Trump's ongoing detention of men at Guantánamo...
Court Orders NYPD to Record All Citizen Encounters In a victory for New Yorkers, last week a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin electronically recording all police-citizen investigative...
In Court Challenging Racially Discriminatory "Emergency Manager" Law On Wednesday, a federal court in Detroit heard oral argument in CCR’s case challenging Michigan’s controversial Emergency Manager...
CCR granted Special Consultative Status to Economic and Social Council of the United Nations The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was granted official special consultative status last week with...
Yemeni man granted Muslim Ban waiver, reunites with family in U.S. after 17 years Last week, after 17 years, Ali Ahmad, a Yemeni man CCR profiled in our report on how the Muslim Ban affects Yemeni-...
In California, prisoners will help develop a remedy to unjust detention conditions For the first time, the men who were held in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay, who won the battle...
Federal judge gives green light to lawsuit challenging CBP's turnaways of asylum seekers at the border A federal judge ruled last week that our lawsuit challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’...
