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 letter demanding that Urooj Rahman and Colin Mattis be released immediately and that the excessive and politically motivated charges against them be dropped. The letter reads: The undersigned civil and human rights organizations, legal associations, and policy institutes condemn the excessive and politically-motivated charges that the federal government is leveling against two members of our community...
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...
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 Sparked by the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and others whose names we may never know, across the country and around the...
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issues HISTORIC decision on former Guantánamo detainee’s case Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane was detained and sent to the...
In the wake of a slew of incidents of anti-Black violence, it is more apparent than ever that especially during a pandemic our Black lives don’t matter. Just this week, George Floyd was killed after...
Trump's public charge rules will only exacerbate the coronavirus health crisis Last week, we joined New York State Attorney General Letitia James arguing (via videostream) before a federal district...
This is the third in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. In this age of the novel coronavirus, millions of people in the United States—those who are not considered essential...
Men in CA continue to be held alone in cells 23 hours a day On Wednesday, attorneys argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to uphold a ruling that California prisons have...
Stop Solitary Confinement: Join us May 12 for virtual oral arguments in Ashker v. Governor of California Join us Tuesday, May 12 as arguments are heard in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on...
People often say “you cannot put a value on human life,” but nobody seems to have told this to the American Legislative Exchange Council – known by its acronym, ALEC. ALEC was one of the right-wing...
YES! Federal judge recommends release of 13 ICE detainees in Louisiana amid COVID-19 On Thursday evening, a federal judge recommended the release of 13 medically vulnerable people in Immigration and...
This is the second in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. In this moment of tens of thousands of lives lost , anti-Asian racism , and inequitable access to COVID-19 testing ,...
Please note that some of the links below lead to photographs and other content that contain images and descriptions of torture and other abuse. Sixteen years ago today , CBS 60 Minutes II broke the...
More Buffalo residents sue over discriminatyr traffic ticketing On Thursday, five Black residents of Buffalo joined a lawsuit against the City over its racially discriminatory traffic ticketing...
This is the first in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. *Photo credit: Hrag Vartanian I arrived at the Center for Constitutional Rights to start a new job in the midst of one...
We're taking on ICE in Louisiana and Mississippi for overcrowded and unhealthy conditions in detention centers “We are washing our hands with shampoo because that is all that we have,” said Rolando...
Join us for a virtual Freedom Flicks screening and Q&A of "Advocate" (2019) We're excited to announce that we are going virtual with our next Freedom Flicks screening! We’ll be partnering with...
Dear Center for Constitutional Rights family, We are reaching out to you, our community, to continue to check in and engage during this unusual and urgent public health crisis. It is in times like...
Tanvir v. Tanzin Supreme Court hearing postponed We are writing to share a few updates: we have cancelled our March 23 event with CLEAR and Justice for Muslims Collective, Protecting Community, "...
