Raft of orders targets the LGBTQIA+ community more broadly; transparency needed to tally harm, assess legality March 5, 2026, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights today filed a lawsuit...
September 24, 2018, New York – In response to the Trump administration’s proposal to designate hundreds of thousands of immigrants as potential “public charges,” the Center for Constitutional Rights...
December 30, 2020Residents in St. James Parish are asking council officials to revoke a land use permit for a planned 14-plant chemical complex, asserting that newly discovered information proves that Formosa’s...
January 29, 2016The movement to put private prison contractors out of business won some amazing victories in 2015. In the last two months, responding to organized action by California’s Afrikan Black Coalition and...
In light of recent reports that the Obama Administration is considering easing restrictions on travel to Cuba, CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren issued an Open Letter today to President Obama ,...
Updated: September 13, 2010
June 2, 2011, New York, Miami and New Orleans – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a strongly-worded order yesterday directing the United States to refrain from...
May 2009The Police Department says its practice of stopping, and sometimes frisking, thousands of people a year in high-crime neighborhoods has helped keep those areas safe. But the growing use of so-called...
May 2012Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court spoke up for the constitutional rights of blacks and Hispanics on Wednesday by granting class-action status to a lawsuit that accuses the New York...
January 16, 2018Environmental groups attempting to block the construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline across the environmentally sensitive Atchafalaya Basin asked a state court to force the company to turn over...
March 8, 2018...The Center for Constitutional Rights has submitted a Freedom of Information Act request, seeking information on the process for adjudicating waivers. Future discovery in ongoing legal challenges...
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