January 7, 2019New St. Louis Country prosecutor: "wanteds" practice is uncontitutional In St. Louis and surrounding Missouri counties, police officers have been allowed to issue a "wanted," the equivalent of a...
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
From Detention Watch Network (DWN) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Banking on Detention: Local Lockup Quotas and the Immigration Dragnet (2015) explores and exposes the depth of local...
Updated: May 24, 2019
May 27, 2019We're suing to block Louisian's anti-protest law [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, landowners, community members, environmental justice advocates, and a journalist filed a lawsuit...
July 22, 2019UPDATE: We're taking on Trump's newest asylum restrictions Last week, the Center for Constitutional Rights, in collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union, and Southern Poverty Law Center,...
Warns Against Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Laws August 7, 2019, New York – Following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following...
September 5, 2019, New York – Today, a newly publicly-released court filing revealed that a Guantánamo prisoner has attempted suicide. According to an emergency motion filed by the Center for...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School are pleased to host “Black October's Legacy: Fighting Impunity with the Aymara Community...
Updated: November 14, 2019
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to partner with the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies on the April 15 online screening of Advocate (2019) and a post-...
Updated: April 9, 2020
July 20, 2020Victory! Appeals court rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline company 'trampled' landowners' rights [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, an appeals court for the State of Louisiana ruled that the...
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