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Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Calls for U.S. Department of Justice Hate Crime Investigation
(Washington, D.C.) – Kenosha, Wisconsin residents have been on edge for more than three days after Jacob Blake, a Black resident of Kenosha, Wisconsin, was shot in the back while in front of his children on Sunday, by a white police officer. Overnight, protests...
As Election Nears, Voting Groups Sue to Prohibit Secretary LaRose from Applying Unconstitutional Ballot Signature Matching Requirements
(Columbus, Ohio) – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Ohio and Covington & Burlington LLP are challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s flawed system of signature match requirements on absentee...
Controversial Tennessee Anti-Protester Law Is Another Brick in the Wall Dividing Americans From Their Constitutional Rights
Washington, DC -- On Thursday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed SB 8005, a bill that imposes a series of criminal penalties and mandatory minimum sentences on those engaged in certain demonstration and protest activity. Under the law, Tennessee protesters face...
Civil Rights Groups Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Anti-Discrimination Laws and Support Same-Sex Foster Parents
(WASHINGTON) – Thousands of same-sex couples seeking to become foster parents will likely face discrimination if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic Social Services (CSS), according to an amicus brief filed yesterday by the Lawyers’...
Kentucky Opts to Drop Requirements COVID-19 Voter Provisions Which Put Voters in Harm’s Way
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) – Kentucky officials dropped several requirements that would have put the state’s voters at risk in order to cast their ballots in this November’s elections, after a vote by the state’s elections board yesterday. The vote must now be approved by the...
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Denounces Trump’s Plan to Station Law Enforcement at Polling Locations
(Washington, D.C.)- On August 20, President Trump announced that he will be stationing federal troops at polling sites in November. With an unprecedented number of Americans expected to vote in the upcoming election, and polling places limited due to the COVID-19...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Sues Postmaster General DeJoy and Other Officials for Disrupting 2020 Election Cycle
(Washington, D.C.) – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and its pro bono counsel, Arnold & Porter LLP, filed suit this evening in federal court for the District of Maryland on behalf of the National Urban League, Common...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Rejects General Louis DeJoy’s Suspension Claims
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Rejects General Louis DeJoy’s Suspension Claims Louis DeJoy Must Be Held Accountable for Damage Caused (Washington, D.C.) – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under responds to Postmaster General...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union LC United
WASHINGTON - Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers' Committee) voluntarily recognized the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU) as the collective bargaining representative of the 46 staff members at the organization. The staff’s...
Lawsuit Says Trump’s Rushed Census Timeline Will Cut Months From Counting, and Processing Data and Erase Millions
(WASHINGTON) – The Trump administration’s last-minute rushed census timeline cuts nearly a month from the actual count and cuts four months from the time for processing and reporting the data, a lawsuit filed against Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross and Census Bureau...
Indiana’s June Primary Disenfranchised Many Voters, New Motion in Federal Lawsuit Demands Change Before Election Day
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Thousands of Indiana voters are likely to have their mail-in ballots rejected this November solely because they were received after noon on Election Day – through no fault of their own, according to a federal motion filed today in federal...
Alamance County, N.C. Town Must Immediately Allow Protester Access to Public Space Near Divisive Confederate Monument
(GREENSBORO, N.C.) – The Alamance County, N.C. Branch of the NAACP and eight individual plaintiffs in North Carolina claimed victory today after a federal judge for the Middle District of North Carolina granted their motion for a preliminary injunction, disallowing a...
Civil Rights Groups Who Supported Harvard Students in Affirmative Action Case Decry DoJ’s Yale University Discrimination Claims
(Washington, D.C.) – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC are reviewing claims that Yale University’s race-conscious policies discriminate against White students and Asian American students and are considering...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Nonprofit Professional Employees Union Sign Recognition Process Agreement
Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU) signed an agreement that sets the terms for a card-check process for voluntary recognition. Upon confirmation of majority staff support for NPEU through this...
Lawyers’ Committee Condemns Racist Appeals in Trump Campaign Tweets
(Washington, D.C.) – President Donald Trump’s campaign Twitter account, tweeted posts today highlighting four alleged ‘regular criminals,’ all of them Black. The post claimed that all were allegedly released from jail as a result of former Vice President Joe Biden’s...