Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security...
November 20, 2018, San Francisco — A federal court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban. The Center for Constitutional Rights, Civil Liberties Union, and Southern Poverty Law...
Donita Judge is Associate Executive Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has responsibility for the organization’s operational planning and provides leadership in the implementation...
We honor the 155th Anniversary of Juneteenth—the celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the U.S.—by envisioning a world more free than the one in which we currently live. We remember our elders...
Updated: June 13, 2020
July 19, 2021, New York – In response to news that Abdul Latif Nasser has been transferred out of Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We are relieved that...
In 2021, the Northwestern University Law Review published "Redeeming Justice," authored by Professor Rachel Lopez (Drexel Kline Law), Terrell Carter, and Ghani Songster. Drawing from human...
Updated: February 10, 2023
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to partner with the Climate Museum and Lapham’s Quarterly to present a special screening of the 2023 eco-thriller film How to Blow Up a...
Updated: August 2, 2023
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Promise of Justice Initiative on Wednesday , August 14 , at 6 p.m. CT for a screening in New Orleans of the documentary Plantations and Prisons: A...
Updated: August 9, 2024
On September 30, 2024, the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Promise of Justice Initiative sent a Special Communication Complaint to the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery;...
Updated: September 30, 2024
June 1, 2026, New York – T oday, the Center for Constitutional Rights made the following statement in response to New York officials marching with Israeli war criminals in New York’s Israel Day...
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