January 25, 2017, New York – In response to news reports about a new executive order concerning Guantanamo and the CIA torture program, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following...
August 3, 2018, North Dakota – Today, a federal judge blocked Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, from continuing a lawsuit against Earth First!. ETP...
Harry Joseph is a resident of Louisiana and pastor of the 114-year-old Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James Parish, Louisiana. With a 95 percent African-American population, St. James shoulders...
Updated: May 22, 2019
TAKE ACTION: TELL YOUR ELECTED STATE REPRESENTATIVES TO HAVE NO ASSOCIATION WITH THE AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL! Choose from the list below the link that corresponds with the state you...
Updated: September 1, 2020
February 5, 2020, New York – Today, Chinyere Ezie , a civil rights attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, announced she had reached an agreement with the luxury fashion house Prada over...
August 24, 2020Debunking the myth of no COVID-19 cases in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Tuesday, several civil rights and racial justice organizations pushed back on efforts...
In September of 1971, an uprising by the incarcerated men of Attica, a maximum-security prison located in western New York, ended in the bloodiest attack by state authorities in United States history...
Updated: August 26, 2021
October 11, 2021 — In recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: From our offices on occupied Lenape territory in lower Manhattan, we...
December 16, 2021While it might be easy to assume the remaining men are the most difficult cases who cannot be sent anywhere, that is far from true.
December 23, 2021The ruling sets up a legal showdown over an ordinance that sent a former parish president to prison for corruption yet remains on the books.
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