Victory! All charges dropped against pipeline protesters Sixteen pipeline protesters and a journalist who had been arrested and charged with felonies in 2018 celebrated a major victory for the First Amendment after a local district attorney in Louisiana rejected all charges and vowed not to prosecute them under Louisiana’s controversial amendments to its critical infrastructure law. In 2018, in the midst of fierce opposition to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline and at the urging of the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, the Louisiana legislature added pipelines to the definition of...
Now streaming! “The Activist Files” Podcast: Radical freedom through art and activism This month, we are excited to cross-promote our 40th episode with “The Artivists’ Room,” Donkeysaddle Projects ’...
ICYMI! Pride Is Protest: Celebrating a Legacy of Black Queer & Trans Resistance, Resilience, and Rebellion Pride Month month, a month that centers the radical legacy of Black and Brown queer and...
TODAY — Pride Is Protest: Celebrating a Legacy of Black Queer & Trans Resistance, Resilience, and Rebellion Join us today 12-12:45pm EST for part two of our Instagram Live series ( @ccrjustice...
The Black Freedom Struggle Continues This year, our 55th, and henceforth, the Center for Constitutional Rights will formally observe Juneteenth as a paid holiday for all staff. Long celebrated in...
Happy Pride Month! Stay tuned for programming later this month It’s Pride Month, a month that centers the radical legacy of Black and Brown queer and trans people who rose up against police brutality...
New York State Legislature introduces “Dignity Not Detention Act” to end ICE detention The New York State Senate and Assembly introduced the Dignity Not Detention Act Monday, a bill that would end...
Shifting power to the people beyond Biden’s first 100 days Today we are launching our latest federal policy agenda titled “Shifting Power to the People: A Rights-based Vision for Biden & the...
U.S. federal judge dismisses lawsuit filed by Jewish National Fund against Palestinian rights nonprofit A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and others against...
A series of attacks on cis/trans women and non-binary people, during this year’s Women’s History Month, have laid bare how prevalent and deadly misogyny and cisheteropatriarchy remain, particularly...
First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City joins lawsuit against ICE The First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City joined a lawsuit, brought by four sanctuary leaders and immigrant rights advocacy...
New York City cannot address the NYPD’s long history and continuation of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory policing practices without substantive engagement with the communities most...
18th anniversary of U.S. invasion of Iraq--we join Iraqi calls for redress and demand Biden end militarism On the 18th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we issued the following statement:...
Biden drops Trump-era public charge rule appeal! Immigrant families can now access life-saving health care, food, and housing assistance for which they are eligible without fear that they will lose...
March 13 marked the one-year commemoration of the killing of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who, at the height of what we now know is the worst pandemic of our lifetime, was working as an...
This year, we are celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Center for Constitutional Rights. We selected March 11 to launch this celebration of our legal and advocacy social justice work because it's...
COVID filing! East Baton Rouge prison still failing medically vulnerable people On Friday, individuals incarcerated at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison urged a federal judge to reinstate a lawsuit...
Biden must rescind Trump-era public charge rules As we exceed 500,000 COVID deaths, the Trump administration’s discriminatory and unlawful public charge rule continues to create fear and deter people...
To honor Black history is to celebrate Black futures and the radical imaginings of our ancestors. Generations of Black freedom fighters have put forward liberatory political, social, and economic...
Dear Friend, The Center for Constitutional Rights entered Black History Month with the purpose of paying tribute to the living legacy of Black freedom fighters, organizers, and artists who have...
WIN! Federal court again blocks Trump-era asylum transit ban A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had...
