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BREAKING: 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."
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February 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
BREAKING: 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."
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On the blog! In a piece The Crisis in Iran: Causes, Context, and What Can Be Done to Oppose U.S. Aggression, associate director of political education and research Samer Araabi urges us to "mobilize and organize, call your Congresspeople, show up, take to the streets."
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February 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
On the blog! In a piece The Crisis in Iran: Causes, Context, and What Can Be Done to Oppose U.S. Aggression, associate director of political education and research Samer Araabi urges us to "mobilize and organize, call your Congresspeople, show up, take to the streets."
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The act of learning itself is under attack.
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and Into the Treehouse for a three-part virtual course exploring the political landscape of our time.
More info & RSVP at www.RootworkToolkit.com
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and Into the Treehouse for a three-part virtual course exploring the political landscape of our time.
More info & RSVP at www.RootworkToolkit.com
Rootwork Toolkit
A living toolkit in the face of state repression
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February 3, 2026 at 11:57 PM
The act of learning itself is under attack.
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and Into the Treehouse for a three-part virtual course exploring the political landscape of our time.
More info & RSVP at www.RootworkToolkit.com
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and Into the Treehouse for a three-part virtual course exploring the political landscape of our time.
More info & RSVP at www.RootworkToolkit.com
"This is killing for sport, it's killing for theater and it's utterly lawless. We need a court of law to rein in this administration and provide some accountability to the families."
— Legal director Baher Azmy www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...
— Legal director Baher Azmy www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...
Families of killed men file first U.S. federal lawsuit over drug boat strikes
The case filed in Massachusetts is the first lawsuit over the strikes to land in a U.S. federal court since the Trump administration launched a campaign to target vessels off the coast of Venezuela.
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February 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
"This is killing for sport, it's killing for theater and it's utterly lawless. We need a court of law to rein in this administration and provide some accountability to the families."
— Legal director Baher Azmy www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...
— Legal director Baher Azmy www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...
"This is killing for sport, it's killing for theater and it's utterly lawless. We need a court of law to rein in this administration and provide some accountability to the families."
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...
Families of killed men file first U.S. federal lawsuit over drug boat strikes
The case filed in Massachusetts is the first lawsuit over the strikes to land in a U.S. federal court since the Trump administration launched a campaign to target vessels off the coast of Venezuela.
www.npr.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:09 PM
"This is killing for sport, it's killing for theater and it's utterly lawless. We need a court of law to rein in this administration and provide some accountability to the families."
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g...
The 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...
January 29, 2026 at 5:48 PM
The 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...
“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.
January 29, 2026 at 1:31 PM
“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.
This spring the Supreme Court will hear arguments in our lawsuit Noem v. Al Otro Lado, a case with major implications for the future of asylum at the U.S. southern border.
Today, we’re launching No Turning Back—a national campaign affirming that asylum saves lives: www.asylumsaveslives.org
Today, we’re launching No Turning Back—a national campaign affirming that asylum saves lives: www.asylumsaveslives.org
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January 28, 2026 at 10:12 PM
This spring the Supreme Court will hear arguments in our lawsuit Noem v. Al Otro Lado, a case with major implications for the future of asylum at the U.S. southern border.
Today, we’re launching No Turning Back—a national campaign affirming that asylum saves lives: www.asylumsaveslives.org
Today, we’re launching No Turning Back—a national campaign affirming that asylum saves lives: www.asylumsaveslives.org
BREAKING: We, alongside the ACLU (@aclu.org), ACLU Mass. (@aclum.bsky.social), and Prof. Jonathan Hafetz of Seton Hall Law School, have joined the family members of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. missile strike in Oct. in suing the U.S. government for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing.
January 27, 2026 at 5:46 PM
BREAKING: We, alongside the ACLU (@aclu.org), ACLU Mass. (@aclum.bsky.social), and Prof. Jonathan Hafetz of Seton Hall Law School, have joined the family members of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. missile strike in Oct. in suing the U.S. government for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing.
Today we filed a public records lawsuit seeking information about the Rankin County District Attorney’s Office’s handling of criminal legal cases in which sheriff deputies had engaged in a pattern of misconduct and abuse for nearly two decades. (1/8)
January 22, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Today we filed a public records lawsuit seeking information about the Rankin County District Attorney’s Office’s handling of criminal legal cases in which sheriff deputies had engaged in a pattern of misconduct and abuse for nearly two decades. (1/8)
A statement from Mahmoud Khalil's legal team regarding the recent news on his detention case:
"Mahmoud cannot be legally detained or deported now because his appeals process has not concluded." (1/4)
"Mahmoud cannot be legally detained or deported now because his appeals process has not concluded." (1/4)
January 22, 2026 at 7:50 PM
A statement from Mahmoud Khalil's legal team regarding the recent news on his detention case:
"Mahmoud cannot be legally detained or deported now because his appeals process has not concluded." (1/4)
"Mahmoud cannot be legally detained or deported now because his appeals process has not concluded." (1/4)
"The insurrection that’s supposedly happening here is, as they say in horror movies, coming from inside the house. It’s not from the people of Minneapolis. It’s from the ICE agents themselves who are fomenting this violence."
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/in...
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/in...
“Autocratic Power Grab”: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Troops to Minnesota
Following Minneapolis protests in response to the ICE killing of Renee Good, President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday, a move that would allow him to send military forces to…
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January 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"The insurrection that’s supposedly happening here is, as they say in horror movies, coming from inside the house. It’s not from the people of Minneapolis. It’s from the ICE agents themselves who are fomenting this violence."
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/in...
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/in...
In the wake of the recent killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minnesota, Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon weighed in on the issue for this piece in WIRED.
January 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM
In the wake of the recent killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minnesota, Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon weighed in on the issue for this piece in WIRED.
"Imagine being so cowardly and ashamed of the First Amendment that rather take on the speech that you disagree with, you try and imprison those who dissent from U.S. foreign policy."
— Legal Director Baher Azmy on the recent ruling in the Mahmoud Khalil case.
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— Legal Director Baher Azmy on the recent ruling in the Mahmoud Khalil case.
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Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil Speaks Out as New Ruling Could Lead to His Rearrest, Deportation
A federal appeals court on Thursday delivered the Trump administration a victory in its efforts to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, opening the door for his rearrest. Khalil was a graduate…
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January 16, 2026 at 8:30 PM
"Imagine being so cowardly and ashamed of the First Amendment that rather take on the speech that you disagree with, you try and imprison those who dissent from U.S. foreign policy."
— Legal Director Baher Azmy on the recent ruling in the Mahmoud Khalil case.
democracynow.org/2026/1/16/ma...
— Legal Director Baher Azmy on the recent ruling in the Mahmoud Khalil case.
democracynow.org/2026/1/16/ma...
BREAKING: Today, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district court ruling hat found Mahmoud Khalil’s detention and removal likely unconstitutional.
January 15, 2026 at 5:09 PM
BREAKING: Today, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district court ruling hat found Mahmoud Khalil’s detention and removal likely unconstitutional.
READ: @governor.ny.gov latest anti-Palestinian "buffer zone" proposal is a threat to the First Amendment. Discriminatory and unlawful sales of occupied Palestinian land cannot be insulated from scrutiny by being moved to religious spaces.
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Civil Rights Groups Warn Against NY Gov. Hochul's Anti-Palestinian "Buffer Zone" Proposal to Ban Constitutionally-Protected Protests
Discriminatory and unlawful sales of occupied Palestinian land cannot be insulated from scrutiny by being moved to religious spacesJanuary 13, 2026, New York — Today, during her State of the State add
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January 13, 2026 at 10:17 PM
READ: @governor.ny.gov latest anti-Palestinian "buffer zone" proposal is a threat to the First Amendment. Discriminatory and unlawful sales of occupied Palestinian land cannot be insulated from scrutiny by being moved to religious spaces.
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We have said every year since the prison opened, and we say again after 24 years: Guantánamo must be closed now, permanently, starting with the prompt transfer and safe resettlement of our client Guled Hassan Duran.
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Guantánamo: Twenty-Four Years of Torture, Lawlessness, and Racism
Jan 8, 2026, New York – With the 24th anniversary of the opening of the U.S.
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January 11, 2026 at 11:42 PM
We have said every year since the prison opened, and we say again after 24 years: Guantánamo must be closed now, permanently, starting with the prompt transfer and safe resettlement of our client Guled Hassan Duran.
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In our latest blog post, Communications Director Sunyata Altenor draws parallels between the recent aggression in Venezuela to Operation “Just Cause” in Panama and its impact on her childhood. Read an excerpt below.
January 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
In our latest blog post, Communications Director Sunyata Altenor draws parallels between the recent aggression in Venezuela to Operation “Just Cause” in Panama and its impact on her childhood. Read an excerpt below.
What we’re reading! Lawyering for Liberation offers “concrete tools for fellow legal workers and lawyers working to achieve a just future.”
With contributions from Executive Director Vince Warren, Staff Attorney Kayla Vinson, and Board Member Meena Jagannath.
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With contributions from Executive Director Vince Warren, Staff Attorney Kayla Vinson, and Board Member Meena Jagannath.
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Lawyering for Liberation by Ameca Reali, Marbré Stahly-Butts - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM
What we’re reading! Lawyering for Liberation offers “concrete tools for fellow legal workers and lawyers working to achieve a just future.”
With contributions from Executive Director Vince Warren, Staff Attorney Kayla Vinson, and Board Member Meena Jagannath.
bit.ly/law4lib
With contributions from Executive Director Vince Warren, Staff Attorney Kayla Vinson, and Board Member Meena Jagannath.
bit.ly/law4lib
BREAKING: In response to the aggression by the United States against Venezuela this morning, we issued the following statement:
January 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
BREAKING: In response to the aggression by the United States against Venezuela this morning, we issued the following statement:
To @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.
January 2, 2026 at 3:32 PM
To @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.
“Let’s be clear: Drug traffickers are not terrorists or combatants, the United States is not at war with any country in Latin America and the extrajudicial killing of civilians is always murder,” writes Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon.
Read: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Drone Strikes Are Wrong. Obama’s Were, Too
Readers respond to a guest essay on why the recent boat strikes by the Trump administration are unjustified.
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December 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Let’s be clear: Drug traffickers are not terrorists or combatants, the United States is not at war with any country in Latin America and the extrajudicial killing of civilians is always murder,” writes Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon.
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On @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.
December 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
On @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.
“The cruelty is killing us,” writes Digital Engagement Manager Lexi Webster on our blog. She reminds us that escalating attacks targeting the trans community are not abstract, and have immediate, life-threatening implications for trans people across the country.
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We Must Not Look Away: The Escalating Targeting of Trans People
"The attacks we’ve endured are neither anomalous nor abstract — they’re relentless, coordinated, and growing in frequency."
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December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“The cruelty is killing us,” writes Digital Engagement Manager Lexi Webster on our blog. She reminds us that escalating attacks targeting the trans community are not abstract, and have immediate, life-threatening implications for trans people across the country.
Read: ccrjustice.org/home/blog/20...
Read: ccrjustice.org/home/blog/20...
In Alabama, the court rejected an appeal brought by incarcerated people punished or threatened with punishment for refusing to work in our case Stanley v. Ivey. We're disappointed, but not defeated. The fight continues.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In Alabama, the court rejected an appeal brought by incarcerated people punished or threatened with punishment for refusing to work in our case Stanley v. Ivey. We're disappointed, but not defeated. The fight continues.
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