CCR, in partnership with the New Orleans-based community organization Safe Streets/Safe Communities, recently sponsored a national hearing entitled, “New Orleans Coming Home: Law Enforcement in the...
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August 26, 2015, Chicago – Professor Steven Salaita filed a motion late last night in his lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) charging UIUC officials with...
March 4, 2016Jen Marlowe’s latest production, There is a Field , opens with actor Kesav Wable’s back to the audience. Wable plays Aseel Asleh, a Palestinian teenager and peace-activist who was a citizen of Israel...
April 13, 2016Amid a news cycle crowded with reports about Republican fearmongering and the Obama Administration’s bureaucratic paralysis on closing Guantánamo, a local news article last week from Fort Wayne,...
June 22, 2016As part of CCR’s discriminatory policing , sexual and gender-based violence , and LGBTQI persecution work, CCR successfully challenged Louisiana’s requirement that those charged under the archaic and...
May 3, 2017As analyses of the first months of the Trump administration continue, let’s reflect on how much control the corporate sector now has within major areas of the U.S. Government. Let’s survey the scene...
September 10, 2019The Trump administration is separating Yemeni-American families. We're suing to reunite them. [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, we filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for...
April 20, 2020We're taking on ICE in Louisiana and Mississippi for overcrowded and unhealthy conditions in detention centers [caption align="right"] [/caption] “We are washing our hands with shampoo because that...
Obstacles to Public Benefits Will Exacerbate Health and Economic Crises, Attorneys Argue May 18, 2020, New York – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Legal Aid Society,...
August 3, 2020Police 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,...
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