New Jersey Muslims meet with NYPD after landmark surveillance lawsuit [caption align="right"] [/caption] Following a landmark lawsuit over the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) blanket,...
Governor Asked to End Project in St. James D ecember 18, 2019, St. James, Louisiana — RISE St. James, a faith-based grass-roots community group, recently learned that graves of enslaved people have...
A proposed Louisiana chemical plant may be building on the graves of formerly enslaved people. We're saying "no." [caption align="right"] [/caption] RISE St. James, a faith-based grassroots community...
Federal judge stops Trump's new public charge rule in its tracks [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s request for a...
Stop Solitary Confinement: Join us May 12 for virtual oral arguments in Ashker v. Governor of California [caption align="right"] [/caption] Join us Tuesday, May 12 as arguments are heard in the Ninth...
New Letter from Formosa Plastics Denies Access to Burial Grounds of Enslaved People May 22, 2020, St. James, LA — St. James residents today re-asserted their rights to visit burial grounds on...
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...
Mass deportations are reckless, inhumane--and unlawful [caption align="right"] [/caption] For the second time in under a month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of...
December 23, 2020, New York – In response to Uganda’s detention of four human rights defenders, including attorney Nicholas Opiyo, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement...
As its on-going celebration of the updated sixth edition of the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook , Center for Constitutional Rights Co-author and Senior Legal Worker Ian Head speaks with a number of...
