...“A stain on the moral fiber of America.” That’s how seven jurors, all senior military officers, described what happened to Majid Khan at secret CIA prisons overseas in the early years of the war...
... Al-Qahatani's attorneys, Shayana Kadidal and Luna Martinez with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement, "He belongs in a psychiatric facility in his home country of Saudi...
... Mr. Qahtani’s approval for repatriation follows litigation by his defense lawyers, Mr. Kassem and Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights. They have argued that he deserves to be...
... Among detainee advocates, there is a wait-and-see attitude. They welcome the board’s decisions but want to see if the administration follows through with releases. Wells Dixon, an attorney for...
... Deliberating and drafting “model bills” at the ALEC summit — a process designed to “imitate” the actual legislative process — is essentially the first step toward introducing legislation in the...
... This week, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) submitted an emergency appeal on Diamond’s behalf that could potentially force the...
...The legal dispute began in 1972 when Jewish settlers sued Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah. According to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Israeli Custodian General gave...
... "For more than a decade, Co-Managing Partner Katya Jestin has worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Military Commissions Defense Organization to represent Mr. Khan pro bono. “...
... Lawsuits brought in those areas have spurred meaningful change. For instance, a class action brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights helped curb the stop-and-frisk practice in New York...
...Ketanji Brown Jackson explained how the Supreme Court decided that even those embattled prisoners had rights. “Judge Jackson was one of many hundreds of lawyers…to challenge this remarkable...