...In 2016, two civil rights groups—the Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional Rights—along with the Kramer Law Center, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents concerning...
...The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in response to the Trump Administration’...
...“It’s a reasonable fear that CDCR will backslide in a number of ways without that oversight,” CJ Sandley, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Truthout. “That’s why we felt...
CCR's Deputy Legal Director, Maria LaHood, discusses recent legislation threatening first amendment rights of Palestinian solidarity activists, at the "Israel Lobby and American Policy" conference on...
Newly released documents show that the FBI’s surveillance of the Black Lives Matter movement extends far beyond social media, according to The Intercept . The documents were acquired by two civil...
A group of landowners has filed a lawsuit alleging Bayou Bridge Pipeline has trespassed on their properties and the land has been damaged without their consent; the group also claims that...
...Through eminent domain, the government would be allowed to use private property for public use, a process the landowners question as being constitutionally permissible given the fact that the...
...“Mr. Powers raised the same issues a court already considered and rejected after a full trial,” Brittany Thomas, a fellow with the Center for Constitutional Rights who argued at the decision...
... “It’s very hard, legally, to challenge emergency orders based on public-health laws,” said Angelo Guisado, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. A court that’s reluctant to...
... In the second episode of the four part series, Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights claims that “This is a part of the disposability of Black lives in our...
