by Press | Jan 8, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — In November, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and partners warned Google of the risk that Parler, an app falsely touting itself as the ‘free-speech’ version of Twitter, posed. Today, in the wake of an attempted coup planned in...
by Press | Jan 7, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Armed insurrectionists attacked and overtook the U.S. Capitol Building to forcibly challenge President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s Electoral College victory. The violence threatened the lives of the entire U.S....
by Press | Jan 7, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – President-elect Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Kristen Clarke (bio), the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to be the nation’s...
by Press | Jan 5, 2021 | Press Releases
(Raleigh, N.C.) – Individuals suffering negative recurring health and environmental impacts from open-air cesspits containing hog waste like feces, blood, urine, bone and other animal fluids, cannot sue industrial swine operations for nuisance, after a Dec. 23, 2020...
by Press | Jan 4, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Members of the Proud Boys, a violent all-male group with ties to white nationalism, attacked and vandalized property of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic Black church, on December 12, 2020, because of...
by Press | Dec 30, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced legislation on Tuesday connecting vital $2,000 stimulus checks for Americans to the creation of a commission to study imagined election illegalities, a move likely designed to derail direct...
