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Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Executive Director Kristen Clarke said, “[This nomination] does not reflect the growing diversity we see today. Farr’s nomination will undermine the rule of law. He has promoted anti-civil rights, anti-women’s rights, anti-workers’ rights, and anti-LGBT rights. We need to save our courts.”

Sotomayor understands that the pretext of voter fraud has been used for generations to justify voter suppression efforts…Sotomayor’s words will echo in our ears as we move forward: Americans must be “even more proactive and vigilant in holding their states accountable and working to dismantle the obstacles they face in exercising the fundamental right to vote.”

Civil rights groups said the court should be focused on making it easier for people to vote, not allowing states to put up roadblocks to casting ballots.

“With the midterm election season now underway, the court’s ruling demands heightened levels of vigilance as we anticipate that officials will read this ruling as a green light for loosely purging the registration rolls in their community,” said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, called the ruling a “disappointing decision, not only because it gets the law wrong, but also because it sends the wrong message to state officials. They must do everything possible to help people vote, not place obstacles in their paths to the ballot box.”

On Thursday, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a national nonprofit, also sent a letter to Logan expressing concerns about the [more than 118,000] missing names.
The letter asked [Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean C. ] Logan to provide detailed information, including what poll workers were told prior to election day regarding use of provisional ballots, and whether the affected voters have been informed that their names have been restored to the rosters.

Marcia Johnson-Blanco, co-director of the Voting Rights Project Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said Congress should focus on getting an accurate count.

“The constitutional mandate is to count everyone,’’ she said. “The focus of this administration and the Congress should be on addressing the factors that contribute to the under count of minorities rather than advocating for untested questions that undermine full participation in the Census.”

A panel of federal judges has ruled that Georgia can continue using current district lines pending the outcome of a lawsuit alleging racial gerrymandering in two state House districts. “Given the majority’s findings that our case was ‘compelling’ and that the General Assembly’s mid-decade redistricting was not ‘fair’ to African American voters in Districts 105 and 111, the court should have restored the district boundaries as we requested,” Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Chief Counsel Jon Greenbaum wrote.