Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a webinar with staff from our Southern Regional Office and Open Records Project . We’ll share more about our new resource, Sweet...
Updated: March 27, 2024
The Center for Constitutional Rights is a proud member of the Dignity Not Detention Coalition , which seeks to get New York out of the business of immigration detention. Join the Dignity Not...
Updated: November 11, 2024
March 15, 2013, New York – Last night, a federal judge approved a settlement between the government and several rights groups in a long-running lawsuit demanding transparency in the...
What will we say when other governments follow our example by providing immunity from prosecution to torturers? The Romans had an expression for it: "Nulla poena sine lege," no punishment...
Updated: July 19, 2011
February 2014By 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...
December 6, 2018, St. Martinville, LA – Today, a Louisiana judge found that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company (BBP) trespassed on privately owned land when it constructed its oil pipeline in the...
MAKE A GIFT TO THE CAMPAIGN " In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been." - Ella Baker As we often discussed with...
Updated: December 17, 2018
Read the stories of transgender people who have faced discrimination in the workplace. October 8, 2019, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Transgender Law Center...
October 28, 2019"This attempt to chill our right to free speech should have ended long ago." [caption align="left"] [/caption] On Tuesday, Center for Constitution Rights Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood urged a...
December 23, 2019A 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...
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