Join us on January 11 to mark 19 years since the opening of the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison [caption align="right"] [/caption] Throughout the last two decades, hundreds of men have been released...
Legal updates in our family separation lawsuit against ICE In 2018, we filed an emergency case to reunite a father whose then 19-month-old son was forcibly taken from him at the Southern border where...
We're suing ICE and DHS for information on terror tactics used in arrests [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, we joined with the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) to file a Freedom of...
Immigrant Defense Project and Center for Constitutional Rights
On November 17, 2020, at 4:45 AM, five plain-clothes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) climbed the side of a building in south Brooklyn and attempted to enter a second floor...
Supreme Court unanimous! American Muslims placed on No-Fly List for refusing to spy on their communities can sue FBI agents for damages [caption align="right"] [/caption] “It is a soaring feeling,”...
We're hiring! Legal Worker We’re hiring! The Center for Constitutional Rights is looking for a legal worker to provide administrative, programmatic, and paralegal assistance as part of case and...
Black trans woman sues Georgia Department of Corrections [caption align="right"] Illustration courtesy of Micah Bazant [/caption] Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman represented by the Center...
TOMORROW: #IStandWithSJP - Support Fordham SJP in court [caption align="right"] [/caption] Fordham’s legal battle to ban Students for Justice in Palestine continues tomorrow November 24 at 2 p.m. ET...
Today, the world honors the dual meanings of Trans Day of Remembrance and Trans Day of Resilience by remembering and celebrating the lives of all trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people...
Mass deportations are reckless, inhumane--and unlawful [caption align="right"] [/caption] For the second time in under a month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of...
We voted. The fight continues. Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren emailed the following message to our supporters Wednesday: We may have news at any moment, but I wanted...
Victory! Migrant Justice settles federal lawsuit on ICE retaliation [caption align="right"] [/caption] In a settlement to a major federal lawsuit, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has agreed...
We're urging SCOTUS to hold U.S. corporatoins liable for international violations On Wednesday, we joined 15 international human rights organizations and submitted a brief to the United States...
Take Action - Black trans lives matter [caption align="right"] [/caption] "We can no longer sit as we become extinct. I want to believe in the triumph of human spirit. That there are people who find...
Supreme Court hears case of American Muslims placed on No-Fly List for refusing to spy on their communities Last week, we argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of American Muslims who were...
We're going to the Supreme Court tomorrow. Here's what you need to know. Tomorrow — October 6 — is argument day in our case Tanzin v. Tanvir ! This lawsuit was brought by American Muslims who were...
Justice for Breonna Taylor requires the transformation of the scoeity and system that killed her [caption align="right"] [/caption] In response to the announcement that only one of the officers...
FILED: New FOIA requests info on Thomson Reuters, RELX Group contracts with ICE Last week, Mijente, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), CUNY Law School’s Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic (HRGJ...
On September 14th, Dawn Wooten—a nurse working at a Georgia ICE detention center— blew the whistle on the conditions within the privately-operated Irwin County facility: many of the immigrants...
From the Streets to the Supreme Court: Protecting our Communities from Federal Rrpression [caption align="right"] [/caption] We’re just a few weeks away from Supreme Court arguments in Tanzin v...
