PR initiative trains attendees in guns and deadly tactics; cultivates vigilantism and xenophobia, rights groups say October 1, 2024, New York and Chicago – Internal documents shed light on the “...
Lawsuit targets St. James Parish Council for Decades of Discriminatory Land Use Practices Oct 7, 2024, New Orleans – Today, before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, groups representing residents of...
Derek Lee argues the sentence for felony murder is unconstitutionally disproportionate and cruel Oct 8, 2024, Pittsburgh – The application of the felony murder rule, which holds liable for murder a...
October 23, 2024, Buffalo, NY – Today, legal and civil rights groups argued on behalf of the grassroots organization Black Love Resists in the Rust and nine individuals for class certification in...
Join Movement 4 Black Lives for a virtual town hall on Thursday, November 7, from 6 to 7:30pm EST . Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren will participate in this event on...
Updated: November 1, 2024
“The very things that Trump will target – dissent, solidarity, and resistance – are our greatest strengths” November 6, 2024, New York – In response to Donald Trump’s apparent victory, Center for...
UNDISCIPLINED, UNPUNISHED: Summary of the Report on the NYPD’s Disciplinary System On September 23, 2024, the Hon. Analisa Torres, a federal court judge in the NYPD stop-and-frisk cases, published an...
Updated: November 12, 2024
Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of punishing people who resist forced labor in Alabama’s majority-Black prisons November 20, 2024, Montgomery, AL – Yesterday, five incarcerated workers brought...
On Friday, February 7, 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST , Emily Early , Associate Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Southern Regional Office, will moderate Property Reparations , a panel of...
Updated: January 27, 2025
January 29, 2025, New York – In response to President Trump’s executive order to prepare a massive facility at Guantánamo to detain immigrants, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
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