CCR Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood will speak about recent laws passed by state legislatures to try to suppress Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) at the fourth annual Israel Lobby and...
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...
The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and of Association had some strong words for the U.S. Congress during his testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission last Tuesday. Speaking...
This week's issue: Challenging Michigan’s racist and undemocratic Emergency Manager law; laws passed by state legislatures that attempt to suppress Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions; centering Black...
CCR Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood will join U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights Executive Director Yousef Munayyer for a discussion on Palestinian advocacy in the Trump era. This discussion is...
...Jahshan praised BDS as a threat to the Israeli control of the narrative. So did Maria LaHood of the Center for Constitutional Rights. She said it was our “moral duty” to support BDS, just like we...
April 26, 2017 , New York, NY – Today, students at Fordham University filed a lawsuit against the school over its refusal to grant club status to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Represented...
...Take, for example, a lawsuit announced yesterday by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal, legal organizations that deal with progressive issues and with Palestinian advocacy,...
...Center for Constitutional Rights Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood, who is representing the students, said the club represented protected speech. "Even if the expression of views seeking justice...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights slammed the university’s action as a threat to free speech on campus. “If Fordham’s guarantee of freedom of inquiry means anything, it’s that students who want...
