The post-9/11 era has defined nearly every aspect of the 21st century. Its most striking ideologies, laws, and policies -- boundless executive powers, a secret and global torture program, indefinite...
Prisoners held in solitary ask full Ninth Circuit for review Last week, men who sued the state of California for imprisoning them in solitary confinement for over a decade continued their fight. A...
Court rules Communities United for Police Reform may intervene in NYPD midconduct database case On Tuesday, a federal court ruled that Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) may intervene in a...
What is America without Kyle Rittenhouse? For that matter, what is America without James Alex Fields Jr. or Dylann Roof? What is America without the Klan? What is America without the winners who won...
Debunking the myth of no COVID-19 cases in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Tuesday, several civil rights and racial justice organizations pushed back on efforts...
Victory! U.S. appeals court rules against former Bolivian president and defense minister over 2003 massacre [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...
Spanning from anarchy to uprising, people have found a wide array of words to describe the activity of the racial justice movement in the past two months. Rioting, protesting, insurrection, terrorism...
Police unions are trying to block police transparency campaign #Repeal50a. We're fighting back. [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, with the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff LLP,...
“Keep the Faith” are the thoughtful words The Honorable John Lewis wrote in my autographed copy of his memoir in 1998, shortly after his book, “Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement,”...
Breaking! Fordham University is still trying to silence Students for Justice in Palestine [caption align="right"] [/caption] Students asked New York’s Appellate Court Friday to reject an effort by...
Victory! Appeals court rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline company 'trampled' landowners' rights [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, an appeals court for the State of Louisiana ruled that the...
We're suing to end cruel and unconstitutional death-by-incarceration sentences [caption align="right"] [/caption] People in Pennsylvania serving death-by-incarceration sentences (commonly known as “...
On July 8th, the Abolitionist Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, seeking to abolish the states’s cruel mandatory Life Without...
STARTING SOON! What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Today from 11 a.m. EDT to 12 p.m. EDT, join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Dream Unfinished , and Lincoln Center for a live...
Charges against Urooj Rahman and Colin Mattis should be dropped. [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last Monday, the Center for Constitutional Rights — along with a coalition of other civil rights...
Juneteenth victory! Judge grants RISE St. James access to ancestral burial grounds for Juneteenth memorial services [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, Judge Emile R. St. Pierre of the 23rd...
This is the last in a four-part series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. It also appears as the latest episode of the Center for Constitutional Rights podcast, The Activist Files...
Releases from ICE detention in Louisiana! Nearly all of our medically vulnerable clients in ICE detention in six Louisiana facilities were released out of concerns for their lives and health amidst...
We all have a role in this movement #BlackLivesMatter [caption align="right"] [/caption] Sparked by the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and others whose names we may never know...
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issues HISTORIC decision on former Guantánamo detainee’s case [caption align="right"] [/caption] Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane...
