Charles Watts, sentenced under obsolete version of “stacking” law, wins motion in federal court January 4, 2023, New York – Today, a 52-year-old Black man sentenced to 92 years in prison for...
January 11, 2023 – Today, on the 21st anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: President Biden has...
Lawmaker-corporate lobbyist deliberations and drafting of laws violate state’s Open Meeting Law, groups say November 15, 2022, Phoenix, AZ – Today, a coalition of grassroots organizations and legal...
Testimony Shows Officers Receive No Training on Racial Bias or Profiling November 14, 2022, Buffalo, NY – Litigation against the Buffalo Police Department (BPD) challenging the constitutionality of...
Israel and U.S. advance plan for U.S. Embassy in Israel on land illegally confiscated by Israel from Palestinians – several of whom are now U.S. citizens Groups say that under plan, U.S. bears...
Still suffering effects of CIA abuse, Guled Duran is one of many stranded at Gitmo due to inaction by courts, Biden admin November 7, 2022, Washington, D.C. – A Somali man held without charge at...
November 4, 2022, The Hague, New York, Paris – After over a year’s wait, FIDH and its member organizations OPEN ASIA | Armanshahr and the Center for Constitutional Rights welcomed the International...
Lawyers Vow to Continue to Pursue Invalidation of Widespread Unconstitutional Use of Wanteds November 2, 2022, St. Louis, MO – Yesterday, the federal Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued an...
October 28, 2022, Washington, D.C. – The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Justice and International Law - CEJIL addressed the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)...
Versión en español a seguir September 22, 2022, New York — A federal district court judge ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday to search the records of former Trump...