Elizabeth Geertsema is the Capital Campaign Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has a passion for philanthropy, human rights, and social justice and brings a decade of experience and...
Ian Head is the Open Records Project Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on policing, racial justice, immigrants' rights, and prisoners’ rights issues. Ian has significant...
April 17, 2024...“This is a historic trial that we hope will deliver some measure of justice and healing for what President Bush rightly deemed disgraceful conduct that dishonored the United States and its values...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to be a member of the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce (FAST): join FAST, the National Immigration Project, and the National Immigrant Justice Center on...
Updated: May 12, 2024
June 7, 2024...In a lawsuit against the City of Buffalo challenging unconstitutional and racially discriminatory traffic enforcement practices by the Buffalo Police Department (BPD), legal and civil rights...
August 5, 2024... Rights groups have called on the Biden administration to investigate crimes committed in Gaza as potential violations of US law. Ahead of the trip to the US last week of the Israeli prime...
October 5, 2024, New York – On the International Day of Action and as we approach one year since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in Gaza, the Center for...
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Diala Shamas will join organizers, educators, and other movement lawyers on Wednesday, March 5 , from 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST , for a discussion...
Updated: February 21, 2025
July 21, 2008, New York – In response to leaked portions of Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s speech to be delivered this morning, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director...
Maria LaHood is Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, with expertise in constitutional rights and international human rights. She works to defend the constitutional rights of...
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