Vincent Warren

It is a bedrock principle of democratic government that the state cannot be judge, jury and executioner all at once. Yet the CIA and Pentagon maintain lists of suspected terrorists to be targeted for killing and have these "kill lists" approved only by an internal executive process. They then hand...

What are white American evangelicals doing in Africa talking to political and religious leaders about anti-gay legislation? The same thing they're doing in the U.S.: cynically pitting communities of color against LGBT communities. The release of the National Organization for Marriage's strategy memos on defeating marriage equality lay...

On July 25, 2011, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed on Honduras. CCR staff member Laura Raymond responded with the letter below, which was not published.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Mary Anastasia O'Grady extensively covers in The Truth Comes Out in Honduras (July 25,...

In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, it is a time to be sober, not celebratory, and to reexamine the policies of this and the previous administration. Bin Laden's death does not erase 10 years of lawlessness and war any more than it brings back to life...

By Vince Warren, Carrie Bettinger-Lopez and Sunita Patel

This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency formalized its Haitian deportation policy. ICE claims it will consider medical and humanitarian factors when deciding whether to deport someone to Haiti. Yet, the policy will still lead to deportations, as early as next...

Today the Center for Constitutional Rights delegation in Haiti visited the Barbancourt II displacement camp in Port-Au-Prince. This camp is home to 310 families who lost their homes in the earthquake and have set up tents, tarps and corrugated metal structures with the few possessions they have left on the...

Apparently, former president, George W. Bush does "cut and run." On February 7, 2011, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints for torture against former president George W. Bush in Geneva. Bush was due to speak there at a charity gala on February 12th. On the eve of...

It is disappointing to see the same president who ran on his constitutional law professor bona fides devote so much time and effort to discrediting WikiLeaks and working up charges against its founder, Julian Assange. WikiLeaks, like the New York Times before it with the publication of the Pentagon Papers,...

The right to liberty is one of the foundation rights of a free people. The idea that any US president can bypass Congress and bypass the Courts by issuing an Executive Order setting up a new legal system for indefinite detention of people should rightfully scare the hell out of...

Well, that didn't take long. Last week I blogged about concerns that "the U.S. government is likely manipulating the Swedish allegations [against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange] for purposes of extraditing Assange to the U.S." (I also wrote that the Center for Constitutional Rights believes the allegations should be...

Today marks the one year anniversary of the assassination of Walter Trochez, a human rights, LGBTQ and democracy activist in Honduras. His death, like those of many other activists, LGBTQ leaders, journalists, unionists and teachers has been nominally investigated by a police force that itself has been implicated in violence...

Here's the most striking WikiLeaks revelation: the same Obama administration that is currently devoting endless resources to vilifying WikiLeaks for promoting government transparency has none to spare when it comes to prosecuting actual perpetrators of torture.

Last month the administration disclosed that it would not file charges against anyone involved...

This post has been removed by the blogger.

This entry was written by Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Senior Staff Attorney, Katherine Gallagher, who was in Haifa to observe proceedings in the civil case filed by the family of Rachel Corrie against the State of Israel. On October 21, 2010 she observed the testimony of the...

This entry was written by Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Senior Staff Attorney, Katherine Gallagher, who is currently in Haifa to observe proceedings in the civil case filed by the family of Rachel Corrie against the State of Israel. Today, the driver of the Caterpillar D9R military bulldozer...

Since 10.10.10 was the World Day Against the Death Penalty, I wanted to use this space to post an excellent piece by my colleague at the Center for Constitutional Rights, Rachel Meeropol, and her father, Robert. Read on for an important contribution to the debate that reframes the issue in...

More than four months ago, the Freedom Flotilla bringing humanitarian supplies to Gaza and seeking to breach the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza was attacked by Israeli commands, leaving one U.S. citizen and eight other passengers dead. The passengers who survived the attack, including 15 Americans, were forcibly taken to...