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New Federal Lawsuit Challenges Indiana’s Unjustifiable Ballot Deadline
(CHICAGO) – Indiana’s early deadline of noon on Election Day to receive mail-in ballots during the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis is unjustifiable and should be rejected, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns Plans to Cut Short Census Door-Knocking Outreach
(Washington, D.C.) — The Trump administration’s attempt to cut short major census operations threatens to undermine the completeness and accuracy of the 2020 Census. While the Census Bureau planned to conduct in-person enumeration through October...
Lawyers’ Committee Statement on Trump Tweet Suggesting Delay In November Election
The following is a statement from Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law:“Dictators and despots seek to delay elections and rig the rules to maintain their grip on power. But this has never been the case...
Local Governments and Black Immigrant Organization Sue To Throw Out Trump’s End Run Around the Constitution
(SAN FRANCISCO) – The Trump administration’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the nation’s Congressional apportionment process is unconstitutional according to a lawsuit filed this week in the United States District Court for the Northern District of...
Title IX Should Be a Tool to Eradicate College Sexual Harassment, But DeVos’s Plan Would Transform Survivors Into Targets
(BOSTON) – The United States Department of Education’s (DOE) final rule on Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs will make college campuses less safe and put sexual assault survivors at further risk by weakening Title IX protections, an amicus...
Separate Census Lawsuit Will Ask Three-Judge Panel to Throw Out Trump’s Constitutional End Run on Counting All of the Nation’s Residents
(San Francisco, Calif.) – The Trump administration’s attempt to exclude immigrants from the nation’s census violates the one person/one vote guarantee in the U.S. Constitution, as well as sections which guard against intentional discrimination and other provisions,...
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns Congress for Failing to Address the Expiring Eviction Moratorium
(Washington, D.C.)–Due to inaction by the Senate, a federal moratorium on evictions has come to an end, affecting more than 12 million households. Additionally, numerous state and local moratoria also have expired. Coupled with the pending expiration of the federal...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Pressures Registrar of David Duke White Supremacist Site to Enforce Its Terms of Service
(Washington, D.C.) – A national technology company, DNC Holdings, Inc., continues to provide web registration services for the white supremacist website DavidDuke.com in violation of DNC’s own Terms of Service, according to a recent letter released today by the...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Louisiana State Partners Release COVID-19 Manual
(Washington, D.C.) — As Louisiana residents grapple with uncertainty caused by COVID-19, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in partnership with Duane Morris LLP, Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center, and Jane Place...
Lawyers’ Committee Leads Coalition of Civil Rights Groups Demanding Leader McConnell Hold Hearings and Vote to Restore the Voting Rights Act
(Washington, D.C.) – Seven prominent civil rights leaders sent a letter on Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Senate leaders demanding hearings and a vote to restore the full protections of the Voting Rights Act in the wake of...
Trump and Carson’s Latest Attack on Fair Housing Racially Motivated and Unlawful
(Washington, D.C.) – President Donald Trump and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson announced today – without following a required notice and comment process – a final rule that would eviscerate all oversight of state and local government compliance...
Trump’s Memorandum Targeting Undocumented Immigrants in the 2020 Census is Totalitarian and Unconstitutional
(Washington, DC) – President Donald Trump issued a memorandum today targeting undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census. The move decimates the federal governments’ ability to collect critical information to fund hospitals, roads, schools and...
In Midst of a Contentious Court Battle, Graham City Council Repeals Unconstitutional Protest Ordinance
(Raleigh N.C.) Graham’s city council today repealed an ordinance at the heart of a recent lawsuit filed by civil rights groups, including the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, rendering unnecessary a hearing for a preliminary injunction that also was...
John Lewis Made America a More Perfect Union
Congressman John Lewis accepts the 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Justice Prize. (Washington, DC) – The nation awakes to the overwhelmingly sad news that Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, a champion for democracy and civil rights, has passed. The following is a statement...
Civil Rights Groups and Pennsylvania Voters Take Legal Action Against Trump Campaign’s Continued Voter Suppression Efforts
(PITTSBURGH) – The Trump administration and the Republican party are attempting to limit Pennsylvanians’ constitutionally protected right to vote by preventing the use of ballot drop-off locations a filing showed today in the U.S. District Court for Western District...