by Press | Jul 28, 2016 | Newsclips
A coalition of Civil Rights groups say they will sue the State of Texas to get the justices on the state’s two highest courts, the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, be elected in single member districts instead of being elected...
by Press | Jul 27, 2016 | Newsclips
“We are seeing today a resurgence of voter discrimination in many parts of the country,” said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. In one case, an Arizona county dramatically reduced the number of polling...
by Press | Jul 26, 2016 | Newsclips
“Sadly some of these tragic shootings occur in communities that are racially isolated, where blacks and whites live on opposite sides of the tracks, attend segregated schools,” says Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil...
by Press | Jul 26, 2016 | Newsclips
“Federal observers [help] to block and deter discriminatory conduct that might otherwise go undetected,” noted Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “[T]he Justice Department’s decision to terminate...
by Press | Jul 26, 2016 | Newsclips
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society of Baton Rouge—an affiliate of the National Bar Association, and the National Lawyers Guild of Southern University Law Center at Baton Rouge announced July 11 that they have joined...
by Press | Jul 22, 2016 | Newsclips
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Dechert law firm in Austin are also part of the legal team challenging the state. They argue in a legal challenge filed with the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas on Wednesday that...
