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July 11, 2025
The following remarks were made by Celine Zhu at the Justice Committee's rally + press conference in New York City on July 11: Good afternoon. My name is Celine, and I am an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where we are counsel for Floyd v. City of New York which showed the NYPD was engaged in widespread racial profiling and unconstitutional stop-and-frisk policin g, and we have been fighting for over two decades alongside community groups and families seeking accountability for the NYPD’s practice of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop, question, and frisk practices...
December 17, 2018
Federal Court Blocks Trump Asylum Ban [caption align="right"] [/caption] A federal court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban last week while we work to get a preliminary...
December 3, 2018
Dispatches from the Border [caption align="right"] [/caption] Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow Lupe Aguirre and Staff Attorney Angelo Guisado have been at the southern border,...
November 28, 2018
Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow Lupe Aguirre and Staff Attorney Angelo Guisado are at the southern border helping asylum seekers. Below is a report of today's events from Lupe...
November 27, 2018
Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow Lupe Aguirre and Staff Attorney Angelo Guisado are at the southern border helping asylum seekers. Below is a report of today's events from Lupe...
November 19, 2018
In court today challenging Trump's asylum ban [caption align="right"] [/caption] We will be in court today along with the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center on our emergency challenge to Donald...
November 12, 2018
Preview of Bayou Bridge Pipeline hearing this Friday [caption align="right"] [/caption] After the Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC (BBP) was sued for beginning construction of a crude oil pipeline on land...
Veterans Day protest
November 12, 2018
CCR stands in solidarity with the veterans of anti-war group About Face who yesterday interrupted an award ceremony in Philadelphia honoring former President George W. Bush. Veterans were responding...
November 5, 2018
Incidents will not stop until hate stops We extend our deepest condolences to the families of those who were murdered and the communities that have been terrorized. These shootings are inextricable...
October 22, 2018
VICTORY: Immigrant father and two-year-old son released from detention and reunited! The Center for Constitutional Rights celebrated an incredible victory last week after a federal judge ordered the...
October 8, 2018
In response to the Senate's confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: The Center for Constitutional Rights...

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April 7, 2025