Fifth Circuit Ruling Confirms State Must Stop Making People Convicted Under Law Register as Sex Offenders April 11, 2023, New Orleans – Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit...
May 1, 2023, New York – In response to the intensifying crackdown on the movement seeking to Stop Cop City/ Defend the Atlanta Forest , the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following...
Join us on Tuesday, May 23, at 6:30 p.m. ET for the launch of The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated , a new book edited by Katie Redford and Mark Gevisser. In the book, 25 of the world’s...
…After a sustained legal campaign driven by the Center for Constitutional Rights, in 2012 Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled the department’s widespread stop and frisk practice to be...
...Samah Sisay, a Center for Constitutional Rights lawyer who represented plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to Scheindlin’s ruling, said the Neighborhood Safety Teams should also be eliminated. “...
Derek Lee, a 35-year-old Black man, seeks end to state’s ban on parole for those convicted of felony murder July 17, 2023, Harrisburg, PA – In a potential landmark case, a Black man serving life...
...In a July 27 letter to Mayorkas, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Brennan Center for Justice, and the Center for Constitutional Rights...
...A coalition of national civil rights organizations have raised concern to the federal government about the phrase “domestic violent extremism” that has been used to justify arrests of opponents of...
...The organizations draw attention to the dozens of environmental protesters arrested and charged with domestic terrorism in a letter to the department director, Alejandro Mayorkas. The charges have...
...A decade later, while we commemorate this legal and organizing breakthrough, we’re also taking stock of its impact, and the stark truth is stops are actually on the rise again. The latest Monitor’...
