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Lawyers’ Committee Statement Condemning Trump’s Racist Video of the Obamas
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, President Trump shared a racist video on Truth Social, depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The video remained up for over 12 hours and was removed following bipartisan backlash. President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’...
Statement from Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights President and Executive Director Damon T. Hewitt
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were taken into federal custody in connection with events at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month. Damon T. Hewitt, president and executive director of the...
Lawyers’ Committee and Partners File Amicus Brief in Support of Hispanic Scholarship Fund in Section 1981 Case
WASHINGTON— The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with partner organizations, filed an amicus brief in American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Hispanic Scholarship Fund in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia urging the...
Legacy Civil Rights Leaders Demand Senate Vote NO on ICE and DHS Enforcement Operation Funding Amid Federal Lawlessness and Deadly Abuses in Minnesota
January 26, 2026 – We condemn the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis as the latest in a mounting toll of deaths tied to immigration enforcement operations, including the killing of Minnesota resident Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and...
Lawyers’ Committee Condemns Killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti and Demands Accountability in Minneapolis
WASHINGTON— The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law condemns the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. Publicly available video footage and reporting contradict the government’s claims regarding the shooting and...
Lawyers’ Committee Calls for Accountability After Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
WASHINGTON — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old woman, in Minneapolis on Wednesday on the heels of an intensified, multifaceted attack on the people of Minnesota. According to reports the...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Welcomes New Chief Development Officer Salena Jegede
WASHINGTON – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is pleased to announce that Salena Jegede is joining the organization as chief development officer. Salena is a fundraising and management professional with an impressive 20-year career promoting...
Statement from Lawyers’ Committee Following Hearing In January 6 Cases, Lee, et al. v. Trump, et al.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On December 19, the D.C. District Court heard arguments in Lee, et al. v. Trump, et al., which has consolidated remaining January 6-related cases against President Trump. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law represents a...
Senator Durbin, Illinois AG Raoul Blast Department of Education for Delaying Promised Relief to Students Scammed by Westwood College
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently disclosed that more than 14,000 former Westwood College students are still awaiting student loan discharges, which were promised in August 2022. ED does not have a definitive answer as to when...
Leading Civil Rights Organizations Respond to Executive Order Seeking to Bar States from Addressing Harms Caused by Artificial Intelligence
A coalition of leading civil rights organizations issued the following statement in response to Executive Order 14179, which attempts to undermine the ability of state and local governments to protect their residents from harms caused by artificial intelligence. The...
Supreme Court Grants Stay in Texas Redistricting Case
Contact: press@lawyerscommittee.org WASHINGTON, D.C. -The U.S. Supreme Court granted the State of Texas’s request to stay a federal court ruling in a case brought by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Texas NAACP, and other groups...
Statement from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Introduction of the AI Civil Rights Act
WASHINGTON — Today, in partnership with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA)and Representatives Yvette Clarke, Summer Lee, Ayanna Pressley, and Pramila Jayapal introduced the AI Civil Rights Act to establish a regulatory system...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Reacts to Texas’s Request for the Supreme Court to Stay a Federal Court Ruling Blocking Texas’s Racially Gerrymandered Congressional Map
Contact: press@lawyerscommittee.org The State of Texas filed a request for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a stay that would pause an important federal court ruling that blocked the state’s racially gerrymandered congressional map from going into effect. The lower...
Federal Court Stops Texas’s 2025 Redistricting Map
A federal court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the 2025 Texas redistricted maps from going into effect, and ordered that the 2026 Congressional election use the 2021 maps instead. Statement from Voting Right Project Director Rob Weiner ...
Lawyers’ Committee Welcomes Five Additional Board Members and Elects New Board Co-Chair, Vice-Chair
WASHINGTON – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has elected a new board co-chair and vice-chair and also welcomed five accomplished attorneys to its board of directors. Dean of Drake University Law School Roscoe Jones, Jr., was elected...