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News: FILED: New FOIA requests info on Thomson Reuters, RELX Group contracts with ICE

September 21, 2020

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), and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to demand information on contracts between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and commercial information technology and data service providers RELX Group and Thomson Reuters. The request follows documentation and reporting on the role of the “data...

Allegations of Forced Sterilization in ICE Detention Evoke a Long Legacy of Eugenics in the United States

September 18, 2020

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...

News: From the Streets to the Supreme Court: Protecting our Communities from Federal Repression

September 14, 2020

From the Streets to the Supreme Court: Protecting our Communities from Federal Rrpression We’re just a few weeks away from Supreme Court arguments in Tanzin v. Tanvir , our case brought on behalf of...

Reflecting on 19 years since 9/11

September 11, 2020

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...

News: Prisoners held in solitary ask full Ninth Circuit for review

September 7, 2020

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...

News: Court rules Communities United for Police Reform may intervene in NYPD misconduct database case

August 31, 2020

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?

August 28, 2020

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...

News: Debunking the myth of no COVID-19 cases in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison

August 24, 2020

Debunking the myth of no COVID-19 cases in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison On Tuesday, several civil rights and racial justice organizations pushed back on efforts by the Sheriff and Warden of the...

News: Victory! U.S. appeals court rules against former Bolivian president and defense minister over 2003 massacre

August 10, 2020

Victory! U.S. appeals court rules against former Bolivian president and defense minister over 2003 massacre Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated a trial court...

The FBI’s legacy of smearing movements as terrorism to justify suppression

August 4, 2020

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...

News: Police unions are trying to block police transparency campaign #Repeal50a. We’re fighting back.

August 3, 2020

Police unions are trying to block police transparency campaign #Repeal50a. We're fighting back. Last week, with the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff LLP, we filed a motion on behalf of...

“Keep the Faith” - Remembering Congressman John Robert Lewis

July 29, 2020

“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,”...

News: Breaking! Fordham University is still trying to silence Students for Justice in Palestine

July 27, 2020

Breaking! Fordham University is still trying to silence Students for Justice in Palestine Students asked New York’s Appellate Court Friday to reject an effort by Fordham University to overturn a...

News: Victory! Appeals court rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline company ‘trampled’ landowners’ rights

July 20, 2020

Victory! Appeals court rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline company 'trampled' landowners' rights On Thursday, an appeals court for the State of Louisiana ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company (BBP)...

News: We’re suing to end cruel and unconstitutional death-by-incarceration sentences

July 13, 2020

We're suing to end cruel and unconstitutional death-by-incarceration sentences People in Pennsylvania serving death-by-incarceration sentences (commonly known as “life without parole”) filed a...

Prison Abolition and the Cruelty of Pennsylvania’s Death By Incarceration Sentencing Scheme

July 13, 2020

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...

News: STARTING SOON! What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

July 6, 2020

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...

News: Charges against Urooj Rahman and Colin Mattis should be dropped.

June 29, 2020

Charges against Urooj Rahman and Colin Mattis should be dropped. Last Monday, the Center for Constitutional Rights — along with a coalition of other civil rights organizations — released an open...

News: Juneteenth victory! Judge grants RISE St. James access to ancestral burial grounds for Juneteenth memorial services

June 22, 2020

Juneteenth victory! Judge grants RISE St. James access to ancestral burial grounds for Juneteenth memorial services Last week, Judge Emile R. St. Pierre of the 23rd Judicial District Court upheld a...

Abolition & Organizing in the time of COVID-19

June 16, 2020

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...

News: a week of victories, struggle, and love Inbox

June 15, 2020

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...

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Reflecting on 19 years since 9/11

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What is America?

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“Keep the Faith” - Remembering Congressman John Robert Lewis

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