February 16, 2021, San Francisco – A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third...
Civil Rights Groups Press Federal Court to Reinstate Lawsuit March 5, 2021, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, individuals incarcerated at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison urged a federal judge to reinstate a...
Senior staff attorneys conduct litigation and advocacy around existing Center for Constitutional Rights cases – and develop new, creative litigation and advocacy – in our issue areas, which include:...
Updated: November 10, 2021
Local District Attorney Rejects All Criminal Charges for Alleged Violations of ALEC-inspired Anti-Protest Amendments to Critical Infrastructure Law St. Martinville, Louisiana – Sixteen pipeline...
September 1, 2021...“We proceeded with our damages claims against the individual F.B.I. agents seeking to remedy the harms they experienced as a result of these abuses,” says Diala Shamas, a staff attorney with the...
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...
Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain , Senior Managing Attorney Shayana Kadidal , and Senior Attorney Wells Dixon answer questions about the state of Guantánamo...
Updated: February 16, 2022
Alejandra Ancheita, founder and Executive Director of the Mexico City-based NGO ProDESC (The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project), is a Mexican lawyer and activist and a leader of the human...
In the latest episode of the Activist Files, Bertha Justice Fellow Zee Scout speaks to five plaintiffs in our case Women in Struggle, et al. v. Bain, et al. , recorded on the ground just before the...
Updated: November 16, 2023
November 21, 2023...In an alternate reality — one where the rule of law is applied equally to all states — Israeli leaders would likely face war crimes charges for the razing of Gaza. Leading genocide scholars and...
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