By Bill Quigley, Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans . “Our...
Updated: January 19, 2012
On May 15, 2018, CCR sent a letter to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposing S.J. Res. 59, the 2018 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, also known as the "Corker-Kaine...
Updated: May 16, 2018
Recently released from detention, he seeks damages for politically motivated arrest
Judge Denies Government’s Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Brought on Behalf of Asylum Seekers July 30, 2019, Los Angeles – A federal district court has rejected the government’s second attempt to dismiss a...
August 4, 2010, New York – Today, a federal court judge found that the City of New York’s 2007 FDNY entrance exam (Exam 6019) unfairly discriminated against Black and Latino test-takers...
Plaintiffs sue parish council for pattern of racist land use practices that centralize petrochemical plants in Black neighborhoods, declare that new suit is only just the beginning March 21, 2023,...
January 7, 2026The invasion, illegal under international law and waged in the name of so-called security, was a turning point in our lives.
March 1, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA – Newly released documents reveal that Louisiana state intelligence officers surveilled community groups opposed to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline and that regulators used...
September 6, 2018CCR is excited to be part of a new coalition launched yesterday, called Protect the Protest . PTP brings together civil liberties, human rights and environmental groups to push back against Strategic...
September 21, 2016Three years ago, my friend Tyler and I crept onto a squalid and cramped fur farm in northern Illinois and released two thousand mink from their cages to save their lives. Approximately a year later,...
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