![]() | The Peoples Lawyer: The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice, From Civil Rights to Guantnamo Subjects: Center for Constitutional Rights (New York N.Y.); Civil rights -- United States; Public interest law -- United States; Human rights advocacy -- United States; There is hardly a struggle aimed at upholding and extending therights embedded in the U.S. Constitution in which the Centerfor Constitutional Rights (CCR) has not played a central role,and yet few people have ever heard of it. Whether defendingthe rights of black people in the South, opponents of the war inVietnam and victims of torture worldwide, or fighting illegalactions of the U.S. government, the CCR has stood ready totake on all comers, regardless of their power and wealth. Whenthe United States declared that the Constitution did not applyto detainees at Guantanamo, the CCR waded fearlessly intobattle, its Legal Director declaring, "My job is to defend theConstitution from its enemies. Its main enemies right now arethe Justice Department and the White House." |
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