Center for Constitutional Rights

06/01/2026

📣 We’re hiring! 📣

We’re currently hiring a Media Associate. The role is remote with occasional travel. The salary range for the position is $85,066 to $110,849, commensurate with experience.

The Media Associate will provide support for various aspects of the Communications Department and its department director’s work, including the weekly e-newsletter, press lists, social media management and day-to-day administrative support.

Applications are due June 25, at midnight PT. To learn more about the role you can head to our website.

The Media Associate will provide support for various aspects of the Communications Department and its department director’s work, including the weekly e-newsletter, press lists, and day-to-day adminis

06/01/2026

Regarding yesterday’s Israel Day Parade in NYC.

05/29/2026

📣 We’re hiring! 📣

We’re currently hiring an Associate Controller. The role is hybrid, based in NYC, 2-3 days onsite at the director's discretion. The salary range for the position is $130,242 to $156,026, commensurate with experience.

The Associate Controller is responsible for performing and managing various transactions, with a focus on investments, revenue recognition, grant and balance sheet accounts reconciliations, annual budgets, and reporting.

Applications are due June 12, midnight PT. You can learn more about the role and apply on our website.

The Associate Controller reports directly to the Finance Director and works closely with the other members of the Finance and Operations teams.

05/28/2026

BREAKING: Parents and children in NYC File class action lawsuit challenging abusive, racially discriminatory emergency removal policy, which separates families and leaves lasting harm.

Read here — https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/parents-and-children-nyc-file-class-action-lawsuit-claiming-acs

ACS routinely misuses this power — meant only for rare, truly urgent situations when there is not enough time to get a court order — regularly bypassing judicial review despite having ample time to seek court authorization.

This policy violates families’ fundamental right to remain together. This government overreach causes deep and lasting harm, especially to Black and Latino families who are disproportionately targeted.

Learn more about the case on our website. https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/archer-et-al-v-city-new-york

Archer et al. v.

05/14/2026

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.

In an oral argument on the landmark lawsuit filed by the family and Justice Committee in October 2025, their lawyers argued that Tisch abused her discretion when she rejected the ruling of her own deputy commissioner, who found Lt. Rivera guilty of excessive force and recommended he be fired.

“I was born and raised in New York City, but now I can’t imagine staying in this place that has caused my family so much harm – I don’t want us to live in a place where police get away with killing people with impunity,” said Julie Aquino, partner of Allan Feliz and mother of Allan’s son, Eli

“Allan Feliz’s family and Justice Committee have been harmed by Police Commissioner Tisch’s irrational decision to ignore the trial evidence and recommendation to fire Lt. Rivera, and the court must hold her accountable,” said Staff Attorney Samah Sisay.

Read the full press release on our website.

Suit calls Commissioner Tisch’s decision to overturn her own deputy commissioner’s guilty verdict an abuse of discretionMay 14, 2026, New York – Today, the family of Allan Feliz asked the New York Sta

05/12/2026

indefensibly refused to for killing – 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

05/08/2026

These revelations make clear that Mahmoud Khalil’s immigration proceedings have been a complete sham.

We will continue to fight for Mahmoud in every court we can.

05/06/2026

The Center for Constitutional Rights has sent a letter to Rutgers University condemning its unconstitutional decision to cancel Rami Elghandour as the 2026 School of Engineering convocation speaker.

As a public university, Rutgers is bound by the First Amendment. This decision not only silences Mr. Elghandour, it is part of a broader and deeply troubling pattern of suppressing advocacy for Palestinian rights across the United States—raising serious concerns about academic freedom and civil rights.

We are calling on the university to immediately reinstate Mr. Elghandour as Convocation speaker for this month's Engineering graduation. Click here to read the full letter: https://bit.ly/ccrelghandour

For more on this issue: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/06/rutgers-cancel-graduation-speech-pro-palestine-post

05/01/2026

"'The conservative project has always been much larger. It aims to strip the ability of all people to have basic rights of bodily autonomy. A scapegoating of trans people allowed the conservative legal movement’s momentum to continue, rather than stall or retract in size following their big victory' in Dobbs."

— Chinyere Ezie, Senior Staff Attorney

The rights of women, people of color, gay people, disabled people and trans people — a vast majority of the country — have been targeted by a science-denialist, billionaire-funded network.

05/01/2026

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.

Under the order, TPS will remain in place pending the outcome of the class action lawsuit, which says the administration’s termination of the program violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment. TPS had been due to expire at midnight on May 4.

“The ball is now firmly in the Supreme Court’s court. Sixteen lower courts have unanimously ruled against the Trump administration in finding that the judiciary can at least hear and decide these claims," said Managing Attorney Shayana Kadidal. "The fate of 1.3 million TPS holders will now turn on whether the Justices have the good sense to rule the same way.”

Read the full press release, and learn more about the case on our website.

TPS for Yemen will remain while lawsuit challenging termination proceeds, protecting thousands at risk of deportation into extreme dangerMay 1, 2026, New York – A federal court today issued an emergen