In the weeks and months following 9/11, Arab and Muslim men across the country found themselves swept up in investigations into the terror attacks, often simply for minor immigration violations...
...The prosecutors had hoped to find a receptive partner in the administration of President Barack Obama, particularly as the American public had widely condemned the war on terror tactics of his...
October 11, 2021 — In recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: From our offices on occupied Lenape territory in lower Manhattan, we...
... On the 20th anniversary of the official launch of the so-called "Global War on Terror," a coalition of progressive advocacy groups on Monday demanded that U.S. President Joe Biden finally shut...
... Moyn takes Ratner—the long-time president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who died in 2016—to task for filing Rasul v. Bush to give people indefinitely detained at Guantánamo the...
...Working with the US-based Center for Constitutional Rights, Gallagher represents three men detained in Guantanamo, and warns that "allowing powerful states to get away w[ith] multi-year, multi-...
... Just 35% of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of immigration, down from 43% in April, when it was already one of Biden’s worst issues, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC...
...Under the current habeas process, the government can withhold certain classified evidence from a detainee and his lawyers, including information obtained in counterterrorism raids. If the...
...In 2008, the United States Supreme Court ruled that people imprisoned at Guantánamo can challenge their imprisonment by filing writs of habeas corpus. And in 2020, a federal appeals court panel...
