1. Lynne Stewart: Heroic Human Rights Lawyer Jailed
(Opinions/Daily)

...long with Stewart. Her case was precedent-setting, chilling, and according to the Center of Constitutional Rights Michael Ratner: sent "a message to lawyers who represent alleged terrorists that ...

2. Rise of Mercenary Armies Menace World
(Opinions/Daily)

...y, ‘mercenaries’ makes wars easier to begin and to fight---it just takes money and not the citizenry,” said  Michael Ratner, of New York’s Center for Constitutional Rights. “To the extent a popul...

3. Obama’s Guantánamo Appeasement Plan
(Editor/Editorial)

...p; The U.S. Congress, still rendered catatonic by post-9/11 rhetoric, will probably capitulate along with Obama. Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, noted that Obama’s ...

4. Military Thug Squad at Guantanamo
(Opinions/Daily)

...wed. Case closed. End of the day, a few handwritten sentences, almost uniformly identical in each instance. So, Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights asks a very simple question: “W...

5. Lawmakers Debate Establishing 'Truth Commission'
(Opinions/Daily)

...sident Bush to deploy the military to carry out raids inside the United States. We speak to human rights attorney Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights.Michael Ratner, human right att...

6. Rendition is a Horrible Violent Crime in Any Form
(Opinions/Politic)

...s ass.” There is a slippery slope between ordinary rendition and extraordinary rendition. “Rendition has to end,” Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, recently told Amy G...

7. A Call to End All Renditions
(Opinions/Features)

...s ass.” There is a slippery slope between ordinary rendition and extraordinary rendition. “Rendition has to end,” Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Amy Goodman on...

8. Bush Officials Violated Anti-Torture Laws
(Opinions/op-ed)

...fe or executed. HRF has charged as of April, 2005, 108 foreign detainees had died in U.S. custody. CCR President Michael Ratner said, “the existence of ‘torture memos’ drafted by administration offic...

9. Has America become Fascist?
(Opinions/op-ed)

... the White House. Mussolini's used the less grandiose "Il Duce" or "The Leader." According to Michael Ratner, director of the Center For Constitutional Rights, New York, "the ...

10. Call for Dismissal and Prosecution of John Yoo
(Editor/Editorial)

...as "merely some professor vigorously expounding controversial and even extreme views." As CCR President Michael Ratner wrote in the forthcoming book, The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld, "Had ...