BREAKING: In light of new evidence of misconduct by the Trump Administration, Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team is asking the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to re-open his immigration case and terminate proceedings.

Today, the family of Allan Feliz asked the New York State Supreme Court to order NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to fire the police officer who killed him more than six years ago.

“Despite the FBI closing its investigation with no findings to support the accusation, the Trump administration continued to label Mr. Khalil a supporter of Hamas in public comments,” said @ccrjustice.org staff attorney Samah Sisay. interc.pt/4uIwgcF

"This document further supports our argument that the Trump administration had no legitimate reason to target Mr. Khalil besides his free speech in support of Palestine." — Samah Sisay, Staff Attorney theintercept.com/2026/05/12/m...

NYPDPC 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

@rutgersuniversity.bsky.social canceled a graduation speaker because of his views on Palestinian rights. That’s unconstitutional. We sent a letter to Rutgers demanding they reinstate Rami Elghandour as the 2026 School of Engineering convocation speaker.

“The conservative project has always been much larger. It aims to strip the ability of all people to have basic rights of bodily autonomy.” (1/2) — Chinyere Ezie, Senior Staff Attorney for @assignedmedia.org.

BREAKING: A federal court today issued an emergency order preventing the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemen, granting a victory to a class of Yemeni immigrants who sued to preserve the program.

"We need legislators with the moral clarity and courage to address issues of over-sentencing, aging in prisons, prison health care and forced labor in prison. We have yet to see such leadership from our elected officials." — Korbin Felder, Justice Fellow mississippitoday.org/2026/04/28/p...

"How do I hold these two truths together? That I walk through the city afraid and that the city, in small and persistent ways, tells me I am welcome. That I am watched and that I am seen." — Mahmoud Khalil nymag.com/intelligence...

In response to the recent Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, Executive Director Vince Warren shared this statement: (1/4)

“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.

NEW: CIVIC + over 120 groups from around the world call on all States to stop support for US extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific or risk legal responsibility. civiliansinconflict.org/press-releas...

In light of the recent indictment by the Trump Administration against the Southern Poverty Law Center, we released the following statement:

Yesterday 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.

VICTORY! Earlier this week, Palestinian refugee Mohammed Abushanab was ordered to be released from ICE detention within 48 hours of the order. Mr. Abushanab had been in detention for 20 months despite being granted humanitarian relief.

BREAKING: After Mahmoud Khalil appealed an immigration judge’s decision finding him removable, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) today issued a “final” administrative removal order in his case in retaliation for his speech in support of Palestinian rights.

Urgent Action: The Trump administration is moving swiftly to push through weapons sales to Israel that sustain genocide against Palestinians. As soon as next week, the Senate will vote on whether to stop the delivery of armored bulldozers and 1,000-pound bombs.

"Hundreds of people being held by federal immigration officials in a rural Mississippi county have been waiting months for a judge to consider their arguments to be set free while they await the outcome of their immigration cases." mississippitoday.org/2026/04/03/i...

BREAKING: We filed three lawsuits on behalf of Rural Roots Louisiana and Mt. Triumph Baptist Church in Ascension Parish, LA. The cases seek to protect cultural heritage and accountability as state and federal gov't move to rapidly industrialize the parish's West Bank. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Tomorrow, we’ll be joined by our co-counsel American Imm. Council (@immcouncil.org), Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (@cgrsasylum.bsky.social), @democracyforward.org, and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Supreme Court for oral argument in Noem v. Al Otro Lado.

Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, announced today that he will step down from his role after more than 20 years of leadership. Read the full announcement on our website. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Today at 4:00 - 5:30 PM CST, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is holding its first-ever hearing on the legality of U.S. boat strikes and the harm they are causing communities across Latin America.

On March 2, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), led 12 lawmakers in pressing Secretary of State Marco Rubio on his abuse of power and possible First Amendment violations.

Tomorrow, The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is holding its first-ever hearing on the legality of U.S. boat strikes and the harm they are causing communities across Latin America.

VICTORY! The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a historic verdict against Virginia-based corporation, CACI Premier Technology, which was found liable for its role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003-2004.

BREAKING: Today we filed a lawsuit seeking to compel the federal government to release records related to multiple executive orders issued by President Trump last year that target the LGBTQIA+ community for systematic erasure and exclusion from public life.

“I think a lasting shame for [Columbia] university for how they failed to intercede on [Mahmoud Khalil's] behalf or prevent his abduction when they knew it was possible." — Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/n...

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team filed an appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) asking that it reverse the charge by the Trump administration related to his green card application, and terminate the proceedings entirely.

#AllanFeliz should be celebrating his 38th birthday w his family today. Instead, they're mourning at the cemetery. Over 6yrs ago then-Sgt.Jonathan Rivera shot Allan during an unjust traffic stop. Allan’s family has been fighting for the bare minimum of accountability since: to #FireJonathanRivera 🧵

STATEMENT: We stand in solidarity with the people of Iran and across the region who are enduring bombardment and the horror of escalating war.

“How can you have a funeral if you can’t bring a hearse, if you can’t bring a body to the grave site?” — Korbin Felder, attorney and Justice Fellow www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

“It presents a very compelling case, and honestly, a very devastating one.” — Katherine Gallagher, Senior Staff Attorney www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-so...

VICTORY! After a hearing in December 2025, a court ordered landowners on St. Helena Island in South Carolina to remove all obstructions to local Gullah Geechee residents’ access to their centuries-old cemetery.

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.arootedtoolkit.com

Today, the legal advocacy organization Al Otro Lado and a class of courageous asylum seekers filed their brief with the Supreme Court ahead of a March 24 argument on the legality of a now-defunct policy blocking access to the U.S. asylum process.

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." Learn more: ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

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." Read: ccrjustice.org/blog

"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...

"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...

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.

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

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)

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)

"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...

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. 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.