January 9, 2020..."Today, the court rejected the Trump administration's claims that it cannot wait to implement its dangerous and discriminatory public charge policy change," a litigation team in the case brought...
On January 28, 2020, Senior Staff Attorney & Associate Director of Legal Training and Education Rachel Meerpool will join Topeka K. Sam of The Ladies of Hope Ministries,...
Updated: January 22, 2020
February 6, 2020Back in December 2018, civil rights lawyer Chinyere Ezie took to Facebook to share images of a Prada shop in downtown New York with Pradamalia figurines that resembled monkeys in blackface. “I don’t...
April 10, 2020...The suit also claims that USCPR’s participation in the “Stop the JNF” campaign — an activist initiative highlighting the JNF’s involvement in efforts to displace Palestinians from their land — is...
December 11, 2020...A Black transgender woman has filed a lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections, claiming the agency’s inaction has led to her suffering repeated abuses, including sexual assault and...
January 7, 2022...President Biden’s judicial appointments are setting records for diversity, a report showed Wednesday — three-fourths are women, and nearly three-fourths are racial minorities. The judges he has...
October 8, 2023...A complaint, along with a motion for the TRO, filed on the plaintiffs’ behalf by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Southern Legal Counsel says the ban forces trans, gender-nonconforming,...
Rufus Henry and Matthew Allen were both convicted of murder in the second degree by non-unanimous juries and sentenced to life in prison following trials in which they argued that they acted in self-...
Updated: January 17, 2025
December 18, 2019... The Center for Constitutional Rights today in a new report said what Black and Latino New Yorkers already know: racist policing is still a primary policy of the NYPD. Will new Police Commissioner...
July 28, 2017New York governor Andrew Cuomo pledged to abolish solitary confinement for children through a Raise the Age law. Despite that, kids as young as seven can be placed into solitary confinement, since...
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