February 25, 2024...“In the history of U.S. terrorism law, Palestine is the elephant in the room,” said Darryl Li, an anthropologist and legal scholar at the University of Chicago and author of the report. The legal...
February 25, 2024...“The US has created a situation where Israel, a foreign government, can kill US citizens knowing that the US is not going to hold them accountable,” said Maria LaHood, deputy legal director of the...
February 26, 2024...In 2020, at age 67, she became the lead plaintiff in a six-person lawsuit filed by the Abolitionist Law Center, the Amistad Law Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights arguing that...
February 26, 2024On January 26th, the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, ordered Israel to take immediate measures to reduce the number of civilian casualties in Gaza, to insure the provision of basic...
Lower Court Declared Israeli Assault Plausible Case of Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza; Meanwhile Mass Starvation Increases February 28, 2024, San Francisco, CA – Late yesterday, the Ninth...
Staff attorneys conduct litigation and other forms of legal advocacy around existing Center for Constitutional Rights cases – and develop new, creative litigation and advocacy – in our issue areas,...
Updated: April 9, 2024
February 29, 2024, New York – In advance of the launch of a mass mobilization by the Poor People’s Campaign on March 2, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The Center...
In April 2004, news outlets broke the story of torture and abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The stories were accompanied by gruesome photos from a whistleblower – images so...
Updated: February 29, 2024
March 5, 2024A national day of action kicks off a campaign to center the material needs of poor people
Open records requests from RISE St. James in Louisiana revealed critically important information about the burial grounds of formerly enslaved Black people. Photo credit: Bron Moyi for Louisiana...
Updated: June 10, 2025
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