Center for Constitutional Rights Says President Lacks Authority to Detain Prisoner November 30, 2016, Washington – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit challenging the...
Please join us for an evening of community as we celebrate our 50th year, reflect on 2016, and look to what is upcoming in 2017 and beyond. CCR Executive Director Vince Warren and Bertha Justice...
Updated: December 1, 2016
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will speak about LGBTQIA persecution and criminalization on a panel discussion presented in conjunction with the opening of an art exhibit. Exhibit artists...
Updated: December 1, 2016
December 2, 2016, New York – Today, New York State released Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Blacklist of institutions that participate in Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in support of Palestinian...
December 4, 2016Palestinian activists have slammed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over releasing a blacklist of organizations and groups who support and work with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign...
November 30, 2016In January, during the same week that Donald Trump is to be inaugurated, the Supreme Court will hear a case centered on the detentions of Muslim men in the months after 9/11, and whether government...
November 29, 2016...Shane Kadidal, a senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights , said: “There are two baseline constitutional tenets that he manages to screw up in 140 characters.” Scalia was...
December 1, 2016Now that the International Criminal Court has found “reasonable basis to believe” that U.S. military forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan and at CIA black sites, a prominent human-rights...
December 3, 2016..."We've come a point where federal courts may say AUMF has lapsed. ...The practical circumstances on the ground are too different at this point from the aftermath of September 11th for the AUMF to...
Join CCR at the Supreme Court for oral argument in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ). CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will argue the case, urging the Supreme Court to affirm...
Updated: December 6, 2016
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