Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 28/09/2026According to the latest federal monitor report, 13 years after the historic decision that ruled stop and frisk unconstitutional, the NYPD still fails to accurately document Terry stops (i.e. stop and frisk). "Persistent underreporting reflects an ongoing lack of accountability," reads the report. 165
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 25/09/2026Three years into the genocide in Gaza, Netanyahu will duck in and out of the U.S., a wanted criminal and blood-soaked pariah. 0102
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 17/09/2026We stand in solidarity with Prof. Erakat and join her and South Florida residents in calling on Palm Beach County officials to end its $1 billion in Israeli bonds investments—money that is used to murder Palestinians. 065
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 17/09/2026Yesterday our board member, Prof. Noura Erakat, was arrested while joining 100 South Florida residents to give comments against Israel Bonds during the public Palm Beach County Budget hearing. 2145
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 10/09/2026We're hiring! Donor Relations Officer - apply by 9/22! Policy Advocacy Associate - apply by 10/6! Ella Baker Summer Interns - apply by 9/29! More details on each role and information on how to apply at bit.ly/ccr-jobs. No phone calls please! 043
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 09/09/2026It's been 25 years since 9/11. 25 years of a “war on terror” rooted in white supremacy, patriarchy, colonialism, and Christian nationalism. Every administration since – Bush, Obama, and Biden – has contributed to this impunity, and we are paying with Trump's admin. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... 075
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 01/09/2026FREE: Join us TOMORROW as we discuss the merger of the war on drugs and the war on terror, and how it's been used to justify abuse of governmental power (including Trump's boat strike murders) while distracting from the gutting of lifesaving public health services. bit.ly/War-On-Drugs-Sept 010
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 15/08/2026Join us and the Highlander Center on Friday, August 21, at 7:00 p.m. ET for a screening at Hayti Heritage Center of the landmark 1972 film Sambizanga, followed by a group discussion moderated by cultural organizer Marcella Zigbuo Camara of Second Daughter Cinema. 133
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 06/08/2026In a victory for academic freedom, University of Minnesota reaches settlement with holocaust scholar Dr. Raz Segal whose job offer was pulled for penning a groundbreaking op-ed on Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. More: ccrjustice.org/home/press-center 040
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 24/07/2026📣 We’re hiring! 📣 We’re currently hiring legal interns for the fall semester. 142
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 16/07/2026Yesterday we filed a landmark case under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, who is suing the Trump administration officials and three anti-Palestinian private organizations that conspired to deprive him of his constitutional rights. Artist and advocate Cynthia Nixon joined us. 3187
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 14/07/2026FILED! One year after his arrest, Mahmoud Khalil is responding with a landmark lawsuit against senior Trump administration officials and three anti-Palestinian groups: the Heritage Foundation, Canary Mission, and Betar. Learn more: bit.ly/mahmoud-v-heritage-filed 613243
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 01/07/2026NEW ZINE: Everything Rots in the Empire is a small contribution to our movement archive: a counter-narrative piece that unsettles the myth-making of the United States as it marks 250 years this weekend. READ: ccrjustice.org/everything-rots-empire 132
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 30/06/2026Our response to the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing states to ban trans youth and some intersex youth from participating in school sports: 142
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 26/06/2026This week's SCOTUS decision gives the policy that turned away 1000s of people seeking asylum at the border, forcing them back into danger without the chance to seek the asylum process. Senior Staff Attorney Angelo Guisado reminds us that behind this SCOTUS decisions are real people. 073
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 25/06/2026In response to today’s Supreme Court ruling denying jurisdiction over certain claims challenging termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria, we released the following statement: 123
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 25/06/2026We're devastated but remain undeterred. Today's SCOTUS decision overturns immigration laws that, for 100+ years, have required gov't officials to inspect anyone presenting themselves at designated ports of entry. Asylum saves lives. We'll keep fighting to protect families seeking asylum. 12111
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 24/06/2026In response to the recent sentencing of the Prairieland defendants, we released the following statement: 185
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 17/06/2026📣 We’re hiring! 📣 We’re currently hiring a staff attorney to work on our Southern based case work. Visit bit.ly/ccr-jobs for more info and to apply. 041
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 12/05/2026NYPDPC indefensibly refused to #FireJonathanRivera for killing #AllanFeliz – even after her own deputy commish found him GUILTY. Stand with Allan’s family in court as they sue to make sure repeat offender Rivera is finally FIRED! 📍71 Thomas ⏰May 14 @ 9:30 am bit.ly/rsvp-feliz 111
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 28/04/2026“As a mother and an educator, I am living a harrowing struggle between my dream of securing my children’s future and a dire reality that threatens our very existence,” said Hadeel Doe, an anonymous plaintiff in the case and a mother and educator from Michigan. 175
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 17/04/2026Yesterday we were in court with our co-counsel at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (@aaldef.bsky.social) on behalf of a class of Yemeni immigrants requesting an emergency order to prevent the Trump administration’s termination of TPS for Yemen from going into effect. 134
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 09/02/2026BREAKING: A federal district court today when it ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit, stating: "Plaintiffs describe a land use pattern that quite literally originated in slavery." Learn more: ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... 0145
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 29/01/2026The Center for Constitutional Rights endorses the national shutdown January 30, 2026. Read our statement from our executive director, Vince Warren here: ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... 153
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 29/01/2026“This reeks of systemic racism,” says Inclusive Louisiana’s Gail LeBoeuf at a press conference moments after a federal court heard arguments in our case challenging St. James Parish’s discriminatory land use system, which concentrates petrochemical plants in majority-Black neighborhoods. 173
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 02/01/2026To @en.france24.com’s François Picard, Executive Director Vince Warren says that now is the time to focus on protecting individuals, organizations, and movements exercising their First Amendment right to dissent, and resist the Trump admin’s attempts at an authoritarian takeover. 174
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 27/12/2025On @en.france24.com, Executive Director Vince Warren warns that under the threat of authoritarianism—elections and litigation won’t be enough. Against Trump and allies’ attempts to undermine institutions and consolidate power, civil society and legislators must take a stand. 041
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 19/12/2025Last week, Executive Director Vince Warren was on France 24 discussing the accelerating authoritarian push and cruelty in the US, and the Warner Bros bids and how media mergers are not just commercial transactions when occurring under such an administration. 130
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 17/12/2025Breaking: Members of Gullah Geechee community on St. Helena Island urged Court to restore access to sacred cemetery blocked by private landowners. Residents requested an injunction against landowners; court denies landowners’ motion to dismiss the case. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... 15324
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 15/12/2025PACK THE COURTS! Tomorrow, we will be in court with members of the Gullah Geechee community on St. Helena Island in South Carolina urging a county court judge to restore, for a temporary period, their access to their local community’s centuries-old cemetery. 150
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 10/12/2025On Human Rights Day, we look beyond a failing system. 251
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 09/12/2025Tomorrow at 6:30pm Executive Director Vince Warren will join a panel during the Black Policy Lab's 2025 annual conference to discuss ongoing threats to the Voting Rights Act and constitutional protections, questioning whether current strategies are enough to meet this moment. 151
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 04/12/2025Today, a federal judge permanently enjoined a portion of a Georgia law banning gender dysphoria treatment in prison, finding that its blanket ban on hormone therapy violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. 12711
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 03/12/2025After 243 days in ICE detention, activist and whistleblower Alma Bowman is home. Alma was finally released from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, two days before Thanksgiving, and reunited with her family after spending eight months detained by ICE. 12917
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 01/12/2025In response to reports that President Trump has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, and what appears to be the increasingly likely use of force on land in addition to the many unlawful killings at sea, we issued the following statement: 1810
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 14/11/2025Victory! After nearly three years in ICE detention, Melika Olya, a 23-year-old Iranian woman and asylum seeker was released today. 24412
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 07/11/2025WATCH: This morning, we co-sponsored a side event in Geneva examining recent developments around the U.S. refusal to participate in the UN Universal Period Review, which has raised concern among advocates, journalists, and local leaders. www.youtube.com/live/hjNnVjq... 154
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 04/11/2025Peter Weiss (1925-2025) The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing of Peter Weiss, the visionary human rights lawyer, our beloved mentor and friend, and our long-time vice president, who served on our board for nearly five decades. ccrjustice.org/home/blog/20... 052
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 03/11/2025Last week, we filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Trump administration with our partners at @justfutureslaw.bsky.social demanding information on ICE and CBP’s use of Israeli surveillance tools against US citizens. Staff attorney Samah Sisay shares more in the video below. 21610
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 29/10/2025On Saturday, November 8, at 6:00 p.m. CT, we’ll be hosting a free screening of ”Born In Flames” by Lizzie Borden at ILÉ ÌFÉ, in New Orleans in collaboration with the Highlander Center. 130
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 28/10/2025Intersex rights are human rights. Intersex Awareness Week recognizes the diversity of people born with variations in their sex traits, and their right to health, dignity and freedom. #WhyWeShowUp #IntersexAwarenessWeek 086
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 02/10/2025“The Trump administration’s campaign to silence nonprofits is a brazen assault on the First Amendment and the very fabric of democratic governance. The Center for Constitutional Rights stands shoulder to shoulder with our fellow defenders of justice: we will not be intimidated ... 150
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 02/10/2025We joined 3,700+ nonprofits who've signed a powerful letter condemning the Trump administration’s illegal attacks on civil society. We will not be intimidated or silenced. READ: bit.ly/3700strong 184
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 01/10/2025📢 We're Hiring! Applications are open for the next cohort of Justice Fellows. 152
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 04/09/2025We're back with out FIFTH webinar in our FOIA and Fight Back! series. Please join us to discuss how to use Open Records requests in Mississippi to support local and national advocacy, media, litigation, and movement organizing campaigns. Register at: bit.ly/foia-sept18. 042
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 03/09/2025📢 We're Hiring! Applications are now open for the 2026 Ella Baker Summer Internship Program! 111
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/08/2025Follow @justicecommittee.bsky.social to learn more! 033
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 15/08/2025Please join us, the Friends of the Congo, and the Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law for a teach-in about the ongoing, deliberate destabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 111
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 06/08/2025Please join us for a webinar to discuss how to use Open Records requests in Georgia to support local and national advocacy, media, litigation, and movement organizing campaigns. 131
Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 31/07/2025We joined 60+ organizations from #Haiti, #France & beyond to call on Emmanuel Macron to acknowledge & repay the “independence ransom” France extorted from Haiti 200 years ago. It is time for justice & reparations! Sign on here: rb.gy/yb3hhf 084