September 22, 2017, Alexandria, VA – Today, a Virginia federal court ruled that three Iraqi individuals formerly detained at the infamous “hard site” at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were subjected...
September 5, 2017, New York – In response to the Trump administration ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following...
August 18, 2017 New York, NY — In response to news of White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon's departure, CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren issued the following statement: Justice is a...
12 de julio, 2017, Los Ángeles – Hoy, un grupo de derechos de inmigrantes y varios solicitantes de asilo presentaron una demanda en contra de oficiales en el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS,...
July 12, 2017, Los Angeles – Today an immigrant rights group and several asylum seekers filed a class action lawsuit against officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in Jesner v. Arab Bank in defense of the Alien Tort...
But Possibility to Prove Liability of Prison Administrators Remains June 19, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court ruling that former high-level Bush...
June 14, 2017, New York — Immigrant rights organizations, Center for Constitutional Rights, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP), Families for Freedom, Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), and...
Private Prison Corporations Fail to Prevent Release of Immigration Detention Documents April 12, 2017, New York – Last night, the two largest private prison corporations in the U.S. suffered their...
March 6, 2017, New York – In response to the release of Trump’s second attempt at a Muslim ban following the first’s many court tangles, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following...