A habeas corpus petition on behalf of the only Guantánamo detainee who the government has openly admitted was tortured.
Updated: April 4, 2022
The community organization Concerned Citizens of St. John sued the St. John the Baptist School Board, School District, and superintendent over the school’s refusal to respond to public records...
Updated: January 6, 2021
On November 9, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for compassionate release in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of Charles Watts, a 51-year-old Black man who is...
Updated: January 5, 2023
The Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal advocated on behalf of Fordham students who were denied permission to start Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the university and then...
Updated: February 3, 2023
RISE St. James, a faith-based grass-roots organization formed to advocate for racial and environmental justice in St. James, Louisiana, learned in November 2019 that graves of people enslaved on...
Updated: March 7, 2023
October 20, 2021Colonialism is generally not a topic of discussion or analysis in constitutional law studies in the United States. Yet U.S. constitutional law has both shaped and been shaped by projects of colonial...
