Convicted under an application of a “stacking” law that has since been amended, the first-time offender would get a 25-year sentence today November 9, 2021, New York – Today, a 51-year-old Black man...
August 15, 2022Judge rules U.S. border turnback policy illegal—government must end practice A district court judge ruled in Al Otro Lado v. Mayorkas that the government’s turnback policy — its practice of...
July 6, 2023This Court’s obsession with “colorblindness” is a euphemistic mask for maintaining white supremacy
October 11, 2023We stand in solidarity with Indigenous Nations and Peoples around the world
Court should reject 9/11 families and other victims' bid to access funds
CCR created the Ella Baker Summer Internship Program in 1987 to honor the legacy of Ella Baker, a hero of the civil rights movement, and to train the next generation of social justice lawyers.
Updated: September 3, 2024
2025 Ella Baker Summer Internship From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo and the cruel and unusual...
Updated: January 29, 2025
January 28, 2021[caption align="right"] Speakers discuss Death by Incarceration at " Brick by Brick: A community forum on ending Death By Incarceration in Pennsylvania" [/caption] On January 26, Abolitionist Law...
September 11, 2011In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, George W. Bush shredded the U.S. Constitution, trampled on the Bill of Rights, discarded the Geneva Conventions, and heaped scorn on the...
November 18, 2015The Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the ACLU of Southern California sent the following letter to UCLA today regarding violations of the right to free expression and political...
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