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Biden Administration Sued Again Over Languishing Debt Relief Claims Disproportionately Shouldered by Communities of Color
Advocates aim to secure relief for former Westwood College students Washington, D.C. – A group of student, consumer advocacy, and civil rights organizations today filed a lawsuit against U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and the Department of Education on behalf...
Lawyers’ Committee Statement on the Hate-Motivated Mass Shooting in Buffalo
WASHINGTON, DC–On Saturday, a white supremacist committed a senseless act of violence in Buffalo, N.Y., shooting and killing 10 people in what authorities called “racially motivated violent extremism.” The following is a statement from Damon Hewitt, president and...
Lawyers’ Committee Condemns Senate Failure To Advance Women’s Health Protection Act After Draft Opinion Signals Potential Roe V. Wade Overturn
Lawyers' Committee Condemns Senate Failure To Advance Women's Health Protection Act After Draft Opinion Signals Potential Roe V. Wade Overturn WASHINGTON, DC–Today, in response to the failed Senate vote to advance the Women’s Health Protection Action, the...
Abortion and Reproductive Health Care Are Civil Rights
(Washington, D.C.) — A draft opinion leaked on Monday indicated that a majority of Supreme Court justices are prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade. If issued, the decision would end the federal constitutional protection for the right to abortion, allowing states to decide...
Lawyers’ Committee, North Carolina Justice Center, Advancing Justice – AAJC, and Legal Defense Fund, Reaffirm Support for Race-Conscious Admissions Policy in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Public and private universities have instituted race-conscious admissions policies to combat the race-based barriers that continue to pervade our society. Civil rights organizations Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, North Carolina...
Latest Court Ruling in School Funding Equity Case a Mixed Bag for North Carolina Children and Families
RALEIGH – On April 26, 2022, a North Carolina court held that the state General Assembly’s 2021 Budget Act failed to fulfill the state’s obligations to support an education funding plan designed to ensure that all schoolchildren can access a sound basic education. The...
All Women of Color Slate of Judicial Nominees Reflects President Biden’s Commitment to Strengthening the Federal Judiciary
(Washington, D.C.) - The Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings Wednesday to confirm five of President Biden’s nominees, all women of color, to the federal bench. President Biden is following through on his commitment to nominate attorneys and jurists from diverse...
Gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Would Allow Racial Discrimination to Run Unchecked
(Washington, D.C.) - A federal appeals court should reverse a district judge’s ruling that held Black voters and other impacted community members have no right to sue under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, according to an amicus brief filed by...
Department of Justice Announces Policing Consent Decree with Springfield, Massachusetts
(Washington, DC)— The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, that it reached a settlement with the City of Springfield, Massachusetts following an investigation into a pattern of excessive force by the Springfield Police Department’s now-disbanded...
Biden administration to change the way it deals with protesters near White House
National Park Service Director Chuck Sams said in a statement the agency is "committed to ensuring people can gather safely to express our most fundamental and cherished right to free speech. This updated policy is designed to be accessible and understandable to both...
Federal Government Agrees to Change Demonstration Policing Policies
WASHINGTON – The Biden Administration announced changes to United States Park Police and Secret Service policies related to the policing of demonstrations, to settle some of the legal claims by civil rights protesters unconstitutionally and brutally attacked outside...
Senate Confirms Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the First Black Woman to Become Supreme Court Justice
(Washington, D.C.) — The U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday, marking the first time in the nation’s history that a Black woman was confirmed to the high court. Judge Jackson is one of the most...
Amir Locke Deserves Justice
(Washington, D.C.) – Minneapolis law enforcement officers will not face criminal charges in the death of Amir Locke, a Black man who was killed by police during the execution of a “no-knock” search warrant in February at an apartment complex. The following is a...
House of Representatives Passes MORE Act to Address Harms Caused by America’s War on Drugs
(Washington, D.C.) — The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act Friday which would decriminalize the usage of marijuana at the federal level and would begin to address the harms caused by America’s War...
What Can Biden Do Now to Protect the Ballot? We Asked Eric Holder and Six Other Voting Rights Experts
"As Trump’s Big Lie festers among the Republican Party and political norms continue to erode, we at The New Republic are pretty concerned about the future of small “d” democracy, both in the U.S. and abroad. So we’ve started a series we’ve termed Democracy Watch,...