by Don Owens | Dec 22, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Members of the Voting Rights Working Group issue the following statement about its election protection litigation for the 2020 elections: “Latino, Black, Asian American, and Native American voters played a decisive role in last month’s...
by Don Owens | Dec 21, 2020 | Press Releases
The rights of transgender student-athletes must be protected from sexual discrimination, harmful legal targeting and sexual assault, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Women’s Law Center, attorneys from Hogan Lovells and 60 other...
by Don Owens | Dec 14, 2020 | Press Releases
(Graham, N.C.) – In a new court filing on Friday, groups leading the October 31 ‘I Am Change’ march to the Polls in Graham, N.C., which was disrupted by police violence, amended their complaint in federal court. The amended complaint in Justice for the Next...
by Don Owens | Dec 11, 2020 | Press Releases
(WASHINGTON) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a lost cause lawsuit brought by Texas’s Attorney General Paxton which sought to invalidate millions of votes cast by voters in four states. The following is a statement from Kristen Clarke, president and...
by Don Owens | Dec 8, 2020 | Press Releases
(WASHINGTON) – Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law president and executive director, Kristen Clarke, issued the following statement after she helped lead a discussion among civil rights leaders this afternoon with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice...