Democrats taking part in the House sit-in are pushing for votes to expand background checks for gun purchases and to curb the sale of weapons to people on government watchlists—a proposal strongly...
Updated: June 23, 2016
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will join a distinguished panel of organizers, advocates, and scholars to discuss an intersectional approach to the incoming Trump administration. This event is...
Updated: December 12, 2016
January 2, 2018A human rights law firm has sued the Louisiana governor's office and a sheriff's office to get records involving a crude oil pipeline proposed to cross the Atchafalaya (uh-CHAF-uh-LY-uh) Basin. The...
January 11, 2018I was captured when I was in my 20s and brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2004, after more than two years in secret prisons. I have been imprisoned here without charges since then. I am now 43. I feel...
April 9, 2018... " Given its track record, TigerSwan should not be allowed to come into Louisiana and use their military-style tactics to hinder the right of ordinary Louisianans to exercise their First Amendment...
May 4, 2018This is a column about Israel’s appalling treatment of a Columbia University professor, Katherine Franke, detained for 14 hours at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and then deported, but before I get...
November 14, 2018Judge Keith Comeaux will be hearing a pre-trial on Friday regarding the constitutionality of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in the Atchafalaya Basin. Loyola University law professor Bill Quigly told KATC’...
November 20, 2018..But even as it tells asylum-seekers they must go to a port of entry, the Trump administration has been turning them away from these very same ports for months, claiming that they are “at capacity...
March 22, 2019... Cases like Sexual Minorities Uganda v. Scott Lively provide insight into the bitter history involving American evangelicals and the extreme homophobia they have helped cultivate in African...
June 5, 2019This week we are joined by Vince Warren, director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who talks to us about how the government is spying on Black Lives Matter protesters, how after 9/11 they...
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