We represent a nonprofit and two church volunteers challenging restrictions on charitable bail activity for violating their First Amendment rights, and a nonprofit that promotes civic engagement and voter registration challenging a retaliatory investigation. We have also represented the Oklahoma Conference of the NAACP in a challenge to an anti-protest law whose vague and overbroad terms threatened to criminalize constitutionally protected speech; an advocate threatened with contempt of court...| Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
ICAP represents plaintiffs across Oklahoma subject to an unlawful statewide scheme to fund the court system and other public services by extorting, arresting, and jailing poor people due to exorbitant fees resulting from traffic, misdemeanor, and felony offenses; plaintiffs in Hamblen County, Tennessee in a class-action suit demanding an end to cash bail systems that systematically jail presumptively innocent people solely because they are impoverished; and plaintiffs challenging the pretrial...| Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
ICAP helped preserve a win for unaccompanied migrant children suing a juvenile detention center for inadequate mental health care after the Supreme Court declined to grant certiorari on a Fourth Circuit case holding that the adequacy of care should be judged by the standard of professional judgment.| Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
Read ICAP Executive Director Mary McCord’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the consequences to separation of powers from the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States on presidential immunity. Mary also joined Princeton’s Program in Public Law and Public Policy on a recent panel to discuss election hazards and potential solutions – find the full recording of the panel here.| Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection