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Statement from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on the Supreme Court Rejecting Trump’s Restrictions on Mail Voting
Tonight, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected the Trump Administration’s attempt to impose and enforce sweeping new mail-in ballot delivery restrictions that threatened to severely disrupt the midterm elections. The restrictions would have required states...
Lawyers’ Committee, NAACP, Black Voters Matter and Common Cause Secure Nationwide Injunction Blocking Trump’s USPS Mail Voting Rule
Federal court grants civil rights groups’ request for preliminary injunction, halting new restrictions that threatened mail voting for millions of Americans ahead of November elections. WASHINGTON – A federal judge today granted a nationwide preliminary injunction...
Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Proof of Citizenship Check Laws, Risking Disenfranchisement of Thousands of Eligible Voters Ahead of November Midterm Elections
INDIANA — A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by four nonpartisan organizations – League of Women Voters of Indiana, Common Cause Indiana, Hoosier Asian American Power, and Exodus Refugee Immigration – seeking to halt enforcement of Indiana laws that...
Civil Rights Groups Sue to Block Trump USPS Rules Threatening Mail-In Votes for 48 Million Americans
WASHINGTON – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP, Common Cause, and Black Voters Matter filed new claims in federal court today in their lawsuit against the president’s executive order on mail-in voting. The new filing challenges a rule issued...
Lawyers’ Committee President Damon Hewitt Welcomes Ryan Haygood as President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center
WASHINGTON— Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, today issued the following statement as Ryan P. Haygood begins his tenure as president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Ryan Haygood is one of...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: 2025 FBI Data Show Progress on Hate Crimes — But Anti-Black Violence Still Leads Every Category
WASHINGTON — In response to the FBI's release of its 2025 hate crime statistics, Len Kamdang, Director of the Criminal Justice Project and the Byrd Center to Stop Hate at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement: “For the third...