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Victory for Voters: Judge Rules New Texas Voter ID Law is Still Discriminatory and Doesn’t Fix Damage Caused by 2011 Law
Corpus Christi, TX – A federal judge ruled today that Texas’ new voter ID law (SB 5) is discriminatory and does not sufficiently cure the discriminatory effects of the 2011 voter ID law (SB 14), which the court previously ruled was passed with an intent to...
Victory for Voters: Judge Rules New Texas Voter ID Law is Still Discriminatory and Doesn’t Fix Damage Caused by 2011 Law
Corpus Christi, TX – A federal judge ruled today that Texas’ new voter ID law (SB 5) is discriminatory and does not sufficiently cure the discriminatory effects of the 2011 voter ID law (SB 14), which the court previously ruled was passed with an intent to...
Police Chiefs and Leading Civil Rights Organization Join to Address Hate Crimes
Alexandria, VA – Recognizing the critical role law enforcement and community leaders play in responding to hate crimes, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) have come...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Underscores Harmful Impact Of Arbitration Clauses On Minority Workers
Civil Rights Groups File Amicus Brief As SCOTUS Scrutinizes Workers’ Rights Washington, D.C. - To protect the rights of workers, the Impact Fund has teamed up with leading civil rights law firms, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and Cohen...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s Statement on U.S. Court of Appeals Decision to Strike Down Anti-Immigrant Ordinance in Oyster Bay, NY
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement Tuesday after the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision...
Trump’s Statement on Charlottesville is Two Days Late and A Dollar Short
On Monday, August 14, 2017, President Trump met with Attorney General Sessions and FBI Director Wray to discuss the mass violence that broke out in Charlottesville this weekend after thousands of KKK and white supremacist-inspired marchers staged a “Unite the Right”...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns President Trump For Again Blaming “Both Sides” For Violence In Charlottesville
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following statement Tuesday after President Trump once again sought to diminish the role white supremacist marchers played in a violent...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds To President Trump’s Latest Statement Following Charlottesville Attack
In the aftermath of Charlottesville, concerned citizens are encouraged to call 844-9-NO-HATE to report bias-based incidents. WASHINGTON, D.C. – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Rejects Hateful Rhetoric Promoted by Organizers of the “Unite the Right” Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
Concerned citizens are encouraged to call 844-9-NO-HATE to report bias-based incidents WASHINGTON, D.C. – Thousands of KKK, neo-Confederates, Proud Boys, neo-Nazis and members of other white supremacist organizations will converge to Charlottesville, Virginia this...
Civil Rights Groups Urge Court to Uphold Decision that Struck Down Unconstitutional Money Bail System in Harris County, Texas
Ruling Could Reform Bail Practices Across the Country MONTGOMERY, Ala. – In a case that has the potential to reshape bail practices across the United States, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the American Civil...
Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law’s FOIA Request to the Department of Justice
On August 10th 2017, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sent a request to the Department of Justice under the Freedom of Information Act to produce all records and document relating to communications between any DOJ employee and a number of individuals...
Statement of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Response to Jeff Sessions’s Sixth Month as Attorney General of the United States
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, released the following statement Wednesday in response to Jeff Sessions’s sixth month as Attorney General of the United States: “In his first six...
Trump Department of Justice Prepares to Sue Universities Over “Discrimination” Against White Applicants
Justice Department reverses position to support Ohio purging inactive voters in high-profile case
"Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, called the Ohio purges “a critical voting rights case” and said the department’s reversal is “the latest example of an agency whose leadership has lost its moral...
Affirmative action: Do white American students really get a bad deal?
Ms Shum: I think it's a myth that race-based admissions benefit only students of colour. One of the other things I've encountered professionally is this perpetuation of another myth, which is that qualified, white applicants are being displaced from college...