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...
Sharon Lavigne is a resident of Louisiana who lives and owns property in the predominately African-American Fifth District of St. James Parish, which is heavily pervaded by pipelines and...
ICE, like any other law enforcement agency, must have a judicial warrant in order to enter a home without consent. But they rarely do. In the absence of a judicial warrant authorizing entry, ICE agents have taken to gaining access to residences through deception, or a "ruse," a tactic that many courts have found to violate the Fourth Amendment. Yet ICE’s memoranda instructing agents about the use of ruses, issued in 2005 and 2006, do not acknowledge any constitutional limitations on the use of ruses, by implication permitting and encouraging agents to misrepresent themselves and their purpose.
The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (“I&A”) produced several emails sent in early 2017 between their personnel concerning a document they referred to as the “Race Paper.” Each email attached a separate version of the document, and some emails contain some feedback from DHS personnel on the structure of the document, call for in-person meetings to discuss the paper, and expressly mention “drivers” and “indicators."
All versions of the “Race Paper” itself were produced to us, but in completely redacted form – nothing, not even the official title of the document, is visible. DHS claims the document is exempt from release to the public under certain statutes. Considering the documents are all fully black out, we are thus left to speculate, as to why DHS would prepare a document it refers to only as the “Race Paper” and then closely guard its contents, even to the point of concealing its actual title and a basic description.
Three Things You Should Know About Airbnb Business decisions play an important role in the protection of human rights. In situations of ongoing and grave human rights violations, businesses that...
...According to the 37-page federal complaint filed in Baton Rouge by attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Loyola University College of Law, the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and...
...After protests erupted near Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline and Bayou Bridge beginning in 2016, 18 states including Texas, Pennsylvania and South Dakota have introduced bills similar to...
...The lawsuit, filed Wednesday by the Center for Constitutional Rights, argues that the law is “so vague, overly broad, and sweeping in scope that people in the state cannot be sure of where in the...
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...
...The plaintiffs describe the law’s aim in the complaint as “to chill, and harshly punish, speech and expression in opposition to pipeline projects.” They argue the law is unconstitutional because...
