by Press | Aug 8, 2020 | Press Releases
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – During an intense pandemic that has forced millions of Americans to turn to vote-by-mail with the support of the U.S. postal system, reports today indicate that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has transferred two top postal executives and...
by Press | Aug 5, 2020 | Press Releases
(Raleigh N.C.) – The First Amendment rights of the Alamance County branch of the NAACP and eight individual plaintiffs in North Carolina were likely violated by Alamance County’s ban on allowing protestors near a confederate monument, on courthouse steps and...
by Press | Aug 5, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, DC) – Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa) signed an executive order today that reinstates the voting rights of Iowans with prior convictions. The following is a statement from Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee...
by Press | Jul 31, 2020 | Press Releases
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Ohio, filed a federal lawsuit today challenging Ohio’s flawed system of matching voter signatures on absentee ballots and absentee ballot applications. The...
by Devon Sullivan | Jul 31, 2020 | Press Releases
(CHICAGO) – Indiana’s early deadline of noon on Election Day to receive mail-in ballots during the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis is unjustifiable and should be rejected, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,...
by Press | Jul 31, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — The Trump administration’s attempt to cut short major census operations threatens to undermine the completeness and accuracy of the 2020 Census. While the Census Bureau planned to conduct in-person enumeration through October...
