📢 We're Hiring! The application for our Technology Director role is now open. The role is based in NYC, hybrid, requiring 2-3 days onsite. The salary range for the position is $138,332 to $188,591.

TAKE ACTION: We are urging Governor Kay Ivey to stay the execution of Geoffrey West, a 50-year-old man scheduled for execution by suffocation with nitrogen gas by the Alabama Department of Corrections this Thursday, September 25.

“Mohammed is an American child with a community in Florida who cares about him deeply,” the organizations wrote in the letter. “It is the responsibility of the US government to protect all American children, including Palestinian-Americans.” Bring Mohammed home. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Starting today, members of five American families will be in DC this week on an unprecedented trip to demand justice for their loved ones who were victims of Israeli violence. Four families’ loved ones were killed by Israeli forces and settlers, and one is currently in detention.

LISTEN: Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher speaks with @kpfa.org's Law & Disorder podcast about our recent lawsuit against the Trump admin seeking records on its funding for the private U.S. outfit GHF. kpfa.org/area941/epis...

On the 24th anniversary of 9/11, we released the following statement: (1/7)

Today, Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team filed its response to the government’s appeal of several previous district court orders.

#ProtectTheProtest member @ccrjustice.org is taking action on Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s role in violence against Palestinians in Gaza, including by calling on Delaware AG Kathy Jennings to investigate and dissolve its charter. Join the call to action: action.ccrjustice.org/a/tell-delaw...

On Tuesday, September 9, Legal Director Baher Azmy will be arguing with co-counsel in Richmond, Virginia before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Al Shimari v. CACI.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Delaware AG Jennings to dissolve the GHF! From the beginning of its genocidal assault on Gaza 22 months ago, the Israeli government has deprived millions of Palestinians of food and other necessities.

“Using military forces to kill alleged drug traffickers is an act of murder, not war." — Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney for @truthout.org.

A ‘prison inside of prison’: Georgia inmates sue correctional officials for denying gender-affirming care – @wabe.org.

Victory! A federal judge preliminarily blocked a Georgia law prohibiting people in state prisons from receiving treatment for their gender dysphoria, and ordered immediate briefing on whether to enjoin the law permanently.

BREAKING: In response to the imposition of sanctions by the US Dept. of State on Al Haq, Al Mezan, and, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights for their efforts before the International Criminal Court (ICC), we issued the following statement:

We'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.

📢 We're Hiring! Applications are now open for the 2026 Ella Baker Summer Internship Program!

Lawsuit demands Trump administration reveal Gaza Humanitarian Foundation funding via @MiddleEastEye www.middleeasteye.net/news/lawsuit...

BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit today seeking records from the Trump administration on its funding for the private U.S. outfit currently in charge of distributing aid to Palestinians in Gaza, the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF).

🚨Militarization is not safety, it's repression.🚨 The Trump administration is trying to manufacture a war zone in DC. This is an attack on democracy, racial justice, and our fundamental right to protest. We refuse to accept a police state. Read the #ProtectTheProtest coalition's statement ⬇️

This week, Tawfic Abdel Jabbar would’ve turned 19 years old. Tawfic, a 17-year-old Palestinian American citizen, was killed by Israeli fire on January 19, 2024, while driving in the occupied West Bank.

🚨ACTION ALERT 🚨ALL OUT FOR #AllanFeliz! @NYPDPC is a coward & a hypocrite who has made it clear that she cares more about protecting abusive officers than the safety of NYers. Join the Feliz family on 8/20 to demand Tisch stops protecting killer cops! #FireJonathanRivera

Rights Group Pushes Delaware AG to Revoke Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's Corporate Charter via @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/news/ccr-gaz...

“There was a common practice in the mid-1900s, when the U.S. was involved in all of these wars in other places, of trying to deny the citizenship of the children that were born from American military men going abroad.” — Kayla Vinson, Staff Attorney georgiarecorder.com/2025/08/07/a...

Please 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).

A @ccrjustice.org lawyer called on Kathy Jennings to "use her power to stop this dangerous entity that is masquerading as a charitable organization while furthering death and violence in Gaza." By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

We called on Kathy Jennings, the Delaware Attorney General, to respond to its demand that she investigate the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and seek to revoke its charter.

"Do not ask me for my vote if you're not willing go to jail for resisting. Do not ask me for my vote if you’re not willing to get ME out of jail for resisting!" Vince Warren of Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org ‪#NN25 keynote. Watch-> www.facebook.com/share/v/1FJD...

BREAKING: Court Dismisses Lawsuit Aimed at Defunding UNRWA!

"I think that the plan is to really just eradicate trans people from public life, to really — contrary to medicine — make the treatment of gender dysphoria a culture war, as opposed to a serious medical need that requires treatment.” — Chinyere Ezie, Snr. Staff Attorney 19thnews.org/2025/08/tran...

Trans people incarcerated in Georgia today filed a federal class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state law banning people in custody from receiving medical treatment for their gender dysphoria.

Don’t miss today’s all-star panel with Vince Warren of @ccrjustice.org, Nikki Thanos of @movementlawlab.bsky.social, Linda Burnham & Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) on not capitulating to authoritarianism and not giving into democratic backsliding! #nn25

Please 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.

Thank you Kristen Stilt @harvardanimallaw.bsky.social‬, ‪@animal-justice.bsky.social,‬ @climatedefense.bsky.social‬, animal law scholars, ‪@nonhumanrights.bsky.social,‬ @ccrjustice.org @aclu-norcal.bsky.social, @nlgnews.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We 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

Yesterday, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the government's request to suspend Mahmoud Khalil’s release on bail and re-detain him pending its appeal of the district court’s bail order.

Today we, alongside our partners, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking information on the Trump Administration’s detention of immigrants at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Breaking: Israel Illegally Seizes Boat Delivering Humanitarian Aid to Gaza. We condemn Israel’s use of military force to yet again prevent the delivery of desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza being starved to death.

The Ugly Politics of Jackson, Mississippi’s Ongoing Water Crisis via @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/1973...

After 125 days imprisoned in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), Venezuelan nationals Edicson Quintero Chacón and Jose Manuel Ramos Bastidas were released yesterday and placed on a flight to Venezuela alongside about 250 others whom the US paid to detain at CECOT.

"Federal authorities have subpoenaed financial records from the City of Jackson and key parties tied to its nearly $90 million settlement with Siemens Industry, Inc. in 2020," according to the Clarion Ledger.

The so-called “adverse foreign policy charge is patently unconstitutional and the administration cannot attempt to remove him on that ground, plain and simple,” Baher Azmy said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ramzi Kassem: Freeing Khalil and defending civil liberties via @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

WE'RE HIRING!📣 We are 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 a semester-long paid internship or externship opportunity.

The court ruling will “ensure nothing but the continued lack of justice and accountability for anyone involved in the military commissions.” — Senior Staff Attorney, Wells Dixon www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/p...

Filed! Our clients Inclusive Louisiana and the Descendants Project filed a suit in federal court against Formosa Plastics to protect and honor their rights to access and care for a final resting place of their enslaved ancestors. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

"The revelation confirms what we already suspected - complete alignment between this administration and these private groups, as well as coordination and information-sharing between them." — Adina Marx-Apadi, attorney and justice fellow www.middleeasteye.net/news/doxxing...

Yesterday the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records related to Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a 17-year-old Palestinian-American citizen, who was killed on January 19, 2024 while living in the occupied West Bank.

Mahmoud Khalil today filed a claim detailing the harm he has suffered as a result of his politically motivated arrest and detention. The claim is a precursor to a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, which he will bring under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

In response to the imposition of sanctions by the United States Department of State on the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, we issued the following statement. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...