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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...
January 11, 2021
This is Sharqawi Al Hajj, a 47-year-old man from Yemen. He has been detained in Guantánamo for 17 years without charge. Guantánamo opened 19 years ago today. Not pictured are his five siblings in...
December 17, 2020
On November 17, 2020, at 4:45 AM, five plain-clothes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) climbed the side of a building in south Brooklyn and attempted to enter a second floor...
December 7, 2020
We're hiring! Legal Worker We’re hiring! The Center for Constitutional Rights is looking for a legal worker to provide administrative, programmatic, and paralegal assistance as part of case and...
November 9, 2020
We voted. The fight continues. Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren emailed the following message to our supporters Wednesday: We may have news at any moment, but I wanted...
October 19, 2020
Take Action - Black trans lives matter [caption align="right"] [/caption] "We can no longer sit as we become extinct. I want to believe in the triumph of human spirit. That there are people who find...

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April 7, 2025