July 22, 2008, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today welcomed the arrest of notorious war criminal and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić. CCR and co-counsel brought a federal...
September 29, 2010 Washington and New York – Today, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed its decision to dismiss Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld , a civil lawsuit...
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...
December 10, 2008, New York – Today the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in a post-9/11 detainee’s challenge to former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director...
The Center for Constitutional Rights was pleased to learn of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s decision to no longer pursue the death penalty against internationally renowned journalist and...
Shayana Kadidal is a Senior Managing Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he has worked on several significant cases arising in the wake of 9/11, including CCR's challenges to the...
On June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court held in Rasul v. Bush , that the nearly-600 men imprisoned by the U.S. government in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba had a right of access to the federal courts, via habeas...
Updated: November 28, 2007
Join CCR Board member Michael Smith and other esteemed panelist to discuss: The Rise of Racism & the Attack on Democratic Rights. Panel topics include: The Attack on Black People's Right to Self...
Updated: February 11, 2008
Join us on Monday, November 8, 2010 as the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel from the ACLU present oral arguments before the district court in Washington, D.C. against the President's...
Updated: November 5, 2010
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Shayana Kadidal will speak on Civil Liberties vs. National Security in Phoenix on November 6th. Constitutional and civil rights developments in the U.S. since 9/11 have had...
Updated: October 20, 2014
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