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Lawyers’ Committee Joins Advocates and Voters to File to Intervene in Pennsylvania Democrats’ Election Lawsuit
(HARRISBURG, Penn.) — Four nonpartisan advocacy groups and three voters from Allegheny County have asked a state court in Pennsylvania to rule that they may intervene in an election-related lawsuit filed by the state Democratic Party. ...
Note to Reporters: Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Submits Letter Concerning Former Wilmington, N.C. Police Officer Fired for Racist Remarks
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sent a letter on Monday to the Wilmington, N.C. Civil Service Commission in North Carolina, concerning former Officer James B. Gilmore, whose employment was terminated after being captured on video making racist remarks...
Process for Voluntary Recognition Set Forth for Employees Seeking Union Representation
August 9, 2020 Dear Friends, Supporters, and Allies for Racial Justice: As some of you may be aware, in recent months a unionizing effort has been underway at the Lawyers' Committee. Throughout our 57-year history, the Lawyers’ Committee has defended the right of...
Postmaster General DeJoy’s Sacking of Postal Leadership May Be Remembered as August’s ‘Friday Night Massacre’
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – During an intense pandemic that has forced millions of Americans to turn to vote-by-mail with the support of the U.S. postal system, reports today indicate that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has transferred two top postal executives and...
Federal Judge Warns Alamance County, N.C. to Allow Protestors Access to Courthouse Grounds
(Raleigh N.C.) – The First Amendment rights of the Alamance County branch of the NAACP and eight individual plaintiffs in North Carolina were likely violated by Alamance County’s ban on allowing protestors near a confederate monument, on courthouse steps and...
Lawyers’ Committee Statement on Iowa Governor Executive Order Restoring Voting Rights to Iowans with Former Convictions
(Washington, DC) - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa) signed an executive order today that reinstates the voting rights of Iowans with prior convictions. The following is a statement from Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for...
Lawyers’ Committee Files Lawsuit Over Ohio’s Unconstitutional Signature-Matching Procedures for Mail-In
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Ohio, filed a federal lawsuit today challenging Ohio’s flawed system of matching voter signatures on absentee ballots and absentee ballot applications. The...
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 Under Law,...
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...