by Press | May 17, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) called for a bipartisan reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act in a letter to congressional leaders on Monday. The following is a statement from Jon Greenbaum, chief counsel...
by Press | May 13, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Thursday on the nomination of Kristen Clarke to be the assistant attorney general for civil rights. The following is a statement from Damon Hewitt, acting president and executive...
by Press | May 12, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
Thousands of tenants across Minnesota may suffer major COVID-19-related setbacks due to loss of their housing if Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s (D-Minn.) Executive Order 20-79 is struck down. The order, which suspends evictions and lease termination notices, has come...
by Press | May 12, 2021 | Press Releases
(Annapolis, Md.) – U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake entered an order Wednesday finding that legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly and the settlement agreement between the...
by Press | May 12, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law announced today that Deepak Gupta of the public interest law firm Gupta Wessler, Marilyn McClure-Demers of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Roscoe Jones Jr. of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP,...
by Press | May 11, 2021 | Press Releases
(Phoenix, Ariz.) – The Arizona State Legislature passed SB 1485 Tuesday, a bill that requires county election officials to unnecessarily purge tens of thousands of eligible voters from the Permanent Early Voter List (PEVL), which is used to automatically mail...
