by Press | Jan 3, 2018 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, released the following statement Wednesday after President Trump shut down the flawed Presidential Commission on Election Integrity, a...
by Press | Dec 27, 2017 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C – A coalition of civil rights and social justice organizations led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law recently filed an amicus brief in support of two consolidated lawsuits, including a lawsuit brought by attorneys general from 16...
by Press | Dec 26, 2017 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – In an important decision for low-income renters nationwide, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell on Saturday rejected the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) move to suspend a rule designed to provide greater housing...
by Press | Dec 22, 2017 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement reacting to news of the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to revoke 25 critical legal guidance documents,...
by Press | Dec 19, 2017 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday morning, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a broad coalition of civil rights organizations will present oral argument in a case challenging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) suspension of...
by Press | Dec 14, 2017 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal district judge on Wednesday ruled that a debtors’ prison scheme run by the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court (OPCDC) that fails to consider an indigent individual’s ability to pay court debts before jailing them violates core...
