... “Stops are increasing, the number of police killings are increasing, the racial disparity in who is being stopped is increasing,” said Samah Sisay, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional...
Case could have national implications for movement against death by incarceration February 16, 2023, Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear a landmark case brought by a...
...“In the history of U.S. terrorism law, Palestine is the elephant in the room,” said Darryl Li, an anthropologist and legal scholar at the University of Chicago and author of the report. The legal...
March 7, 2024, New York – In response to the governor of New York’s announcement of a five-point “subway safety” plan, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The Center...
A few months ago, I gathered with colleagues and allies to mark the 10th anniversary of the landmark stop-and-frisk ruling , which held New York City liable for a pattern of unconstitutional stops...
Ian Head is the Open Records Project Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on policing, racial justice, immigrants' rights, and prisoners’ rights issues. Ian has significant...
Unhoused at high rates, LGBTQIA+ people face dire threat from such laws, which are cruel and unusual punishment, amicus brief says April 3, 2024, Washington, D.C. – The Supreme Court should rule that...
Now, as the Supreme Court considers Grants Pass v. Johnson, a landmark case poised to determine the rights of people who have no choice but to sleep outside during a housing crisis unprecedented in...
...Documents obtained by the plaintiffs in 2023 through a FOIA request reveal that U.S. government officials expressed racist attitudes toward Black migrants during the 2020 and 2021 flights...
Data does not support claim that racial disparities in NYPD stops no longer exist, lawyers say New York, April 12, 2024 – In response to the report just filed by the court-appointed monitor in the...
