...The plaintiffs can seek a retrial. Asked if they would do so, one of their lawyers, Baher Azmy with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said that “the current expectation is that we’ll continue...
...In April, I sat in on the closing arguments of Al Shimari v. CACI , a federal lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of three victims of torture at Abu Ghraib against...
...That lack of attention makes it easy to forget that more than two decades after its establishment as a detention camp for suspects in the War on Terror, 30 men are still being held at Guantánamo...
...After 9/11, everyone – immigrant and citizen, activist and spectator – became vulnerable. And a new category of suspicion fully entered the national imagination: the Muslim American. The anti-...
July 1, 2024, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling today that presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for acts taken as part of their “core constitutional duties...
But judges invoke “qualified immunity”to shield agents from accountability and uphold dismissal of lawsuit seeking damages October 29, 2024, New York – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...
“The very things that Trump will target – dissent, solidarity, and resistance – are our greatest strengths” November 6, 2024, New York – In response to Donald Trump’s apparent victory, Center for...
Donald Trump has rightly drawn condemnation for his repeated threats to reinstate waterboarding and other forms of torture. But under a little-reported program, “ Special Administrative Measures ” (...
March 13, 2025, El Paso, Texas — Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Texas A&M School of Law Civil Rights Clinic submitted a petition for a writ of...
Samah Sisay , Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney, will be speaking on a panel on Black identity, exploring perspectives from Black immigrants and Black Americans. This event is part of...
