By Rachel Meeropol, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and lead counsel on Blum v. Holder, a first amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Today, I am...
Last week , community members in San Jose, California spoke out at a forum on police body-cameras. Their number one concern: cameras being turned on or off “when police officers feel like it.” This...
FBI Agents Listed them for Refusing to Inform, Suit Says March 1, 2017, New York – Today, civil rights attorneys urged a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit against the FBI for retaliating...
Horrific Treatment of Victims Constitutes Torture and War Crimes February 21, 2018, Alexandria, VA – Today, a Virginia federal judge ruled that the treatment of three Iraqi individuals formerly...
Movement lawyering is focus of fellowship December 6, 2018, New York – Four Bertha Justice Fellows will be spending the next two years at the Center for Constitutional Rights getting first-hand...
Spouses, Children of Plaintiffs Are Arriving in New York January 11, 2019, New York – Yemeni-Americans who for more than a year had been prevented from joining their families in the United States...
We demanded transparency on Puerto Rico's undemocratic federal fiscal control board [caption align="right"] [/caption] In January 2017, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with Latino Justice...
Black trans woman sues Georgia Department of Corrections [caption align="right"] Illustration courtesy of Micah Bazant [/caption] Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman represented by the Center...
May 6, 2021, Lafayette, LA – Today, a federal judge allowed a challenge to an anti-protest pipeline law to proceed against a Louisiana District Attorney and sheriff. Activists and a journalist who...
May 6, 2021, Lafayette, LA – Today, a federal judge allowed a challenge to an anti-protest pipeline law to proceed against a Louisiana District Attorney and sheriff. Activists and a journalist who...
