“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...

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. 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. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

I spoke to Samah Sisay of @ccrjustice.org about Trump's new travel ban, which targets Palestinians. "The administration figured out that this is a space that they can utilize to punish Palestinians and exclude them from the fabric of the US system." jewishcurrents.org/trumps-new-t...

"This administration is actually making it difficult for anyone to come here even with visas. At the end of the day, it just highlights that this has...always been about exclusion and racism." — Samah Sisay, Staff Attorney for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. jewishcurrents.org/trumps-new-t...

Last 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.

Breaking: 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...

PACK 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.

Today we filed a motion seeking summary judgment in favor of our client, Mohammed Abushanab, a 27-year-old Palestinian asylum-seeker who has been in indefinite ICE detention for 17 months.

On Human Rights Day, we look beyond a failing system.

"Abolish the Texas Rangers," argues Senior Staff Attorney Angelo Guisado. "They might be portrayed as heroes in movies, but the Rangers have a long, ugly history of white supremacist violence." Read in Current Affairs: www.currentaffairs.org/news/abolish...

Tomorrow 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.

BREAKING: We, alongside the ACLU and NYCLU, filed a lawsuit today seeking the immediate release of an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion and other documents related to President Trump’s illegal lethal strikes on civilian boats in international waters.

Today, 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.

This week we joined a coalition of international legal and advocacy rights groups to issue a warning to Microsoft: aiding Israel’s genocide against Palestinians exposes company and its leadership to liability. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

After 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.

In 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:

Last week, Mahmoud Khalil brought a lawsuit seeking to compel the Trump administration to release its communications with anti-Palestinian organizations and individuals in the run-up to his arrest and detention last March.

“The public deserves full accountability for every bad actor who helped make that possible, including those at Columbia who fabricated and amplified these smears and opened the door for state retaliation against Palestinian speech.” — Mahmoud Khalil via @zeteo.com. zeteo.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

Today, we and our partners filed six public records requests relating to Alabama counties Baldwin and Pickens and the tri-county municipality of Leeds.

Victory! After nearly three years in ICE detention, Melika Olya, a 23-year-old Iranian woman and asylum seeker was released today.

The New York Times recently spoke with 40 of the 200 Venezuelan men, including our client Edicson Quintero, who were shipped to CECOT, a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

New Jobs to Move America report sheds light on Hyundai/Kia’s suppliers’ reliance on prison labor, quantifying how coercive labor practices in Hyundai/Kia’s Southern manufacturing supply chain suppress wages for both incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers. jobstomoveamerica.org/resource/the...

We are eagerly awaiting the PA Supreme Court's ruling on our case with @abolitionistlawcenter.org and @ccrjustice.org claiming Death By Incarceration for felony murder is unconstitutional. What's felony murder? Listen to John Oliver break it down on @lastweektonight.com.

WATCH: 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...

This week, the U.S. gov’t was meant to be reviewed at the UN as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, a peer-to-peer assessment of every country’s human rights record. The U.S. is set to become the first country ever to avoid review after withdrawing in August.

“It is outrageous that YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes from public view.“ — Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney

Peter 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...

Last 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.

Tonight, at 8PM ET there is a virtual documentary screening for Tremane Wood, a man facing execution in Oklahoma next week. northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reproductive freedom means choice & consent for intersex people, too. Many intersex people have that freedom stripped from them due to nonconsensual sterilizing surgeries in childhood. This #IntersexAwarenessWeek we show up for reproductive choice for all. #WhyWeShowUp

We all have the right to make informed decisions about our own bodies — including transgender and intersex people. Our liberation is tied together, and this Intersex Awareness Week we show up to encourage trans and intersex solidarity 🏳️‍⚧️💜💛 #WhyWeShowUp #IntersexAwarenessWeek

Today, we and our partners at @justfutureslaw.bsky.social filed a lawsuit to compel the Trump administration to release information about its use of powerful new surveillance tools as part of its massive effort to arrest and deport immigrants and occupy American cities.

INBOX: @justfutureslaw.bsky.social and @ccrjustice.org sued the Trump admin to compel disclosure of ICE/CBP's use of surveillance tech developed by two Israeli companies, Paragon and Cellebrite, after the legal groups claimed the govt improperly denied initial FOIA requests to see the contracts.

On 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.

📣 We’re hiring! 📣 We’re currently hiring spring legal interns! We're seeking experienced second- or third-year law students or LLM students with a strong commitment to social justice to provide legal research and analysis as part of an internship or externship opportunity.

Intersex 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

Currently in Alabama, the Library Development Division of the Alabama Public Library Service is attempting to ban any positive depictions of transgender people in youth library sections of Alabama’s public libraries.

“We haven’t seen Mohammed. We haven’t heard his voice. We’ve been denied visits. We’ve been denied phone calls. The U.S. State Department is unable to show us a picture of him.” — Zeyad Kadur, uncle of Mohammed Ibrahim. www.newsweek.com/who-is-moham...

📣 We’re hiring! 📣 We’re currently hiring for a Legal Administrative Associate and a Policy Advocacy Manager (PAM). See thread below for more details.

We’ve joined the @aclu.org to demand the Trump admin turn over docs re: to its illegal strikes on civilian boat in the Caribbean. “No president can arbitrarily choose to assassinate individuals from the sky based on his whim or say-so.” – Legal Director, Baher Azmy ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Thank you to @alicesperi.bsky.social who joined us, @theimeu.bsky.social, and our courageous clients during our trip to DC three weeks ago to demand justice for our clients’ loved ones who were victims of Israeli violence. You can read more about the trip below. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

TODAY! Join us and our partners for a virtual screening of Severed film + panel w/ protagonist Mohamad Salah from Donkeysaddle Projects, Dom Kelly from @newdisabledsouth.org, Sandra Tamari from @adalahjustice.bsky.social, & Jen Deerinwater from @crushcolonialism.bsky.social at 3pm ET.

We 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

📢 We're Hiring! Applications are open for the next cohort of Justice Fellows.

Update: This week our client Dr. Badar Khan Suri asked the court to reject the government’s attempts to re-detain him. Past ruling found no legitimate reason to detain Dr. Suri, doing so on the basis of "threat to foreign policy" is likely unconstitutional. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Earlier this month we joined 5 American families in DC to demand justice for loved ones killed by Israeli violence & freedom for Mohammed Ibrahim, detained since Feb. Now the State Dept is appointing a dedicated official for his case. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Oct marks 2 years of #GazaGenocide & is Disability Awareness Month. Host screening of new doc Severed, following teenage amputee from Gaza, reflecting thousands of Palestinians disabled by Israel’s ongoing genocide. Register: tinyurl.com/SevOct #DisabilityJustice #Gaza