July 1, 2011, New York – Yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it will drop 99 out of 101 C.I.A. detainee torture cases that had been under preliminary review by Federal...
Washington DC , June 30, 2011 Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security launched its advisory committee as part of the response to the growing controversy and resistance from states and law...
June 17, 2011, Washington, D.C. – The Center for Constitutional Rights, Detention Watch Network (DWN), Rights Working Group (RWG), National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the National...
June 14, 2011, Phoenix and New York -- Nearly a year after the arrest of three lawyers who were monitoring the police response to protestors opposing the controversial Arizona immigration law, SB1070...
June 13, 2011, Washington and New York – Today, nearly five years to the day after three men died at Guantánamo in June 2006 under still-unexplained circumstances, the Center for...
June 8, 2011, New York and Washington – Today, advocates and attorneys critical of the controversial immigration program Secure Communities (S-Comm) decried the agency’s placing of...
June 1, 2011, New York – A wide coalition of immigrant advocacy groups applauded Governor Cuomo decision today to suspend the mass deportation program known as “Secure Communities...
“The only things ICE is apparently willing to credit to me… are those which they wish to use to imply I was a rogue… I have been made a scapegoat for reasons of political...
May 18, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) expressed profound concern over the University of Georgia School of Law’s decision to appoint former Deputy...
May 16, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Brennan Center for Justice and 24 other groups and individuals urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to