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Lawsuit Filed Against Trump’s Mail-In Voting Executive Order by Lawyers’ Committee, NAACP and Common Cause
WASHINGTON – The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP, Common Cause, and Black Voters Matter Fund filed a lawsuit against President Trump challenging his new executive order on mail-in voting. Shaylyn Cochran, deputy executive director...
Judge Orders Individuals Associated with Patriot Front to Pay Punitive Damages in Civil Rights Case for Destroying Mural of Arthur Ashe in Richmond
RICHMOND – A federal court ordered Patriot Front, its leader–Thomas Rousseau–and Patriot Front members William Ring and Jacob Brown to pay more than $470,000 in a high-profile case filed after members of Patriot Front vandalized and destroyed a mural...
Statement from Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Decision Ruling Trump Can be Held Accountable for January 6 Insurrection
WASHINGTON — Today, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Damon Hewitt issued the following statement in response to the Smith v. Trump ruling. The court found that President Donald Trump is not immune from civil...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Denounces Trump Executive Order Threatening Voting Rights
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law decried President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting. Damon Hewitt, president and executive director, issued this statement: “Tonight, President Trump issued yet another unlawful...
Lawyers’ Committee Congratulates Kristen Clarke on her Appointment as General Counsel of the NAACP
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Kristen Clarke was appointed as general counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Clarke, a trailblazing civil rights lawyer and champion for justice, previously served as president and...
Federal Court Delivers Major Victory for Trafficking Survivors, Halting Anti-DEI Executive Orders and Harmful DOJ Funding Conditions
WASHINGTON On Tuesday, Freedom Network USA secured a preliminary injunction against the Department of Justice (DOJ) that blocks them from forcing any grantee or contractor nationwide to certify that they do not operate DEI programs to receive funding. FNUSA is...
Statement from Lawyers’ Committee on the SAVE America Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the Senate is anticipated to bring the SAVE America Act to the floor for debate. If passed, the SAVE America Act will create additional barriers for eligible voters to register to vote and cast a ballot, and disrupt how elections...
Civil Rights Groups Urge the Supreme Court to Strike Down Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court should strike down President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, according to an amicus brief filed by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Howard University School of...
Statement from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on President Trump’s State of the Union Speech
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earlier tonight, President Trump addressed the nation with yet another divisive and inaccurate State of the Union, including baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and rampant noncitizen voting. In response, Damon Hewitt, president...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Mourns Rev. Jesse Jackson
WASHINGTON D.C. — The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law today mourns the passing of the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., a minister, former presidential candidate, and celebrated civil rights hero, who, for more than six decades, helped advance the...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and NAACP Ask Court to Stop Trump Administration from Misusing Seized Voting Records from Fulton County, Georgia
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, the Atlanta branch of the NAACP, the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, and some individual members today asked the United States District Court for the...
Statement from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Pam Bondi’s Testimony to Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Attorney General Pam Bondi testified in a House Judiciary Committee hearing regarding her leadership of the Department of Justice. During the hearing, Bondi shared an erroneous retelling of the Department’s origins, claiming that...
Lawyers’ Committee Statement Condemning Trump’s Racist Video of the Obamas
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, President Trump shared a racist video on Truth Social, depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The video remained up for over 12 hours and was removed following bipartisan backlash. President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’...
Statement from Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights President and Executive Director Damon T. Hewitt
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were taken into federal custody in connection with events at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month. Damon T. Hewitt, president and executive director of the...
Lawyers’ Committee and Partners File Amicus Brief in Support of Hispanic Scholarship Fund in Section 1981 Case
WASHINGTON— The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with partner organizations, filed an amicus brief in American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Hispanic Scholarship Fund in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia urging the...