Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St. James brought this action against St. James Parish for its decades of environmental racism and discriminatory siting of industrial...
Updated: June 19, 2026
Join CCR at Creating Change 2014, The National Conference on LGBT Equality and the largest gathering of activists, organizers and leaders in the LGBT movement. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pamela Spees...
Updated: January 29, 2014
November 21, 2023 – The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing of Holly Maguigan, a pathbreaking criminal defense lawyer, teacher, and scholar who changed public understanding of how the...
Trump’s Blanket Refusal to Release Any Detainee Amounts to Arbitrary Detention, Lawsuit Says January 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 16 th anniversary of the Guantánamo prison’s opening,...
August 4, 2023...Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria refused to dismiss the torture suit against CACI Premier Technology , a military-industrial...
April 24, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed the decision of a federal court judge to dismiss a lawsuit against high-level Bush administration officials for...
July 23, 2018Court Orders NYPD to Record All Citizen Encounters [caption align="right"] [/caption] In a victory for New Yorkers, last week a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin electronically recording all...
To mark the 24th anniversary of Guantánamo’s opening, 115 organizations, led by the Center for Victims of Torture and the Center for Constitutional Rights, signed this statement reaffirming that...
Updated: January 9, 2026
January 10, New York, The Hague – In support of South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice this week charging Israel with genocide, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
Bill is Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a Katrina survivor and has been active in human rights in Haiti for years...
Updated: January 14, 2010
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