by Press | Feb 12, 2021 | Press Releases
The Facebook Oversight Board must ensure that President Trump’s removal from Facebook is permanent, or risk his further incitement of violence, promotion of racism, and threat to democracy, comments submitted to the board by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights...
by Press | Feb 12, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – During a speech at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., President Joseph R. Biden announced yesterday that the U.S. has secured 200 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses. The following is a statement from Damon Hewitt, acting...
by Press | Feb 11, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Medical bias against at-risk intersectional communities may worsen health care outcomes for these groups who have historically experienced discrimination by medical professionals, a coalition of civil rights groups and legal scholars announced...
by Press | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
The California State Bar must eliminate the use of Facial Recognition Technology in the administration of their February 2021 bar examination, because it is disproportionately inaccurate in identifying women and people of color, a letter sent today to the several...
by Press | Feb 10, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Increasing diversity in America calls for developing new strategies to promote inclusion, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law announced today when it endorsed the Strength in Diversity Act. The following is a statement...
by Press | Feb 9, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced last night that it is opening an investigation into former President Trump’s phone call to the secretary about “finding” 11,780 ballots, broadly understood to be an...
