by Press | Jul 23, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Seven prominent civil rights leaders sent a letter on Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Senate leaders demanding hearings and a vote to restore the full protections of the Voting Rights Act in the wake of...
by Press | Jul 23, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – President Donald Trump and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson announced today – without following a required notice and comment process – a final rule that would eviscerate all oversight of state and local government compliance...
by Press | Jul 21, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, DC) – President Donald Trump issued a memorandum today targeting undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census. The move decimates the federal governments’ ability to collect critical information to fund hospitals, roads, schools and...
by Press | Jul 20, 2020 | Press Releases
(Raleigh N.C.) Graham’s city council today repealed an ordinance at the heart of a recent lawsuit filed by civil rights groups, including the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, rendering unnecessary a hearing for a preliminary injunction that also was...
by Press | Jul 18, 2020 | Press Releases
Congressman John Lewis accepts the 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Justice Prize. (Washington, DC) – The nation awakes to the overwhelmingly sad news that Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, a champion for democracy and civil rights, has passed. The following is a statement...
by Press | Jul 16, 2020 | Press Releases
(PITTSBURGH) – The Trump administration and the Republican party are attempting to limit Pennsylvanians’ constitutionally protected right to vote by preventing the use of ballot drop-off locations a filing showed today in the U.S. District Court for Western District...
