by Press | Dec 11, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Legal volunteers staffing the nonpartisan Election Protection 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) hotline are available to answer calls from Georgia voters who need help requesting an absentee ballot or locating their polling place for early...
by Press | Dec 9, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – YouTube announced on Wednesday that it will begin removing videos that claim widespread voter illegalities or irregularities surrounding 2020’s elections. The move comes 36 days after polls have closed and President-elect Joe Biden was the...
by Press | Dec 8, 2020 | Press Releases
(WASHINGTON) – Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law president and executive director, Kristen Clarke, issued the following statement after she helped lead a discussion among civil rights leaders this afternoon with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice...
by Press | Dec 8, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a post-election effort led by a Republican Congressmen to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania. If the court had intervened, the votes of hundreds of thousands of Black Americans...
by Press | Dec 7, 2020 | Press Releases
(Grand Rapids, Mich.) – Federal Judge Linda Parker rejected a request from a group of Michigan Republicans, who sought a temporary restraining order against the November election results and would have disenfranchised 5.5 million voters. The Lawyers’ Committee...
by Press | Dec 7, 2020 | Press Releases
(NEW YORK) – The city of New York is actively perpetuating segregation in violation of the Fair Housing Act, at points relying on the Trump Administration’s regressive 2020 Disparate Impact rule to justify its discriminatory policy, a proposed amicus brief filed...
