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The Trump Administration Is Setting Up Victims Of Housing Discrimination To Fail
Under the Trump administration, the government agency that is supposed to help Americans with their housing needs wants to torpedo discrimination claims. Reports recently surfaced of a proposal by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to modify one...
Kristen Clarke on the Rachel Maddow Show
Kristen Clarke joined the Rachel Maddow show to discuss our precedent-setting victory against the Daily Stormer and white supremacy.
AU student wins $725,000 in case against Neo-Nazi trolls
Taylor Dumpson was American University's first African American female student body president, and in 2017 she became the target of a number of hate crimes. "Bananas were hung around campus, with black nooses, with racial slurs written on the bananas," explained...
National Civil Rights Organization Wins Lawsuit Against Daily Stormer and White Supremacists Engaging in Online Threats and Harassment
In landmark decision, court rules that hateful online trolling can constitute interference with the equal enjoyment of public accommodations WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that white supremacists who used...
Lawmakers debate role of mental illness in recent mass shootings
W hen addressing the recent mass shootings President Trump said mental illness was the problem. But some disagree. “Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun,” said President Trump.
Booker, Durbin urge authorities to investigate white nationalists with same intensity as global terrorism
WASHINGTON - Following a spate of mass shootings across the United States, Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Richard Durbin of Illinois on Thursday implored the FBI and Justice Department to address the threat of white nationalism with the level of...
Why a Fight Over Trump’s Housing Policy Matters to School Segregation
School desegregation continues to make waves in the 2020 presidential campaign, particularly for two Democratic front-runners, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris of California. But a dispute between the Trump administration and some civil rights...
Our very own @MyeshaBraden & Leah Watson (Criminal Justice Project), joined @thelauracoates on her @SIRIUSXM show to talk about our new report "Enforcing Poverty - Oklahoma's Reliance On Fines & Fees Fuels the State's Incarceration Crisis"
National Civil Rights Group Responds to El Paso and Dayton Mass Shootings
WASHINGTON, DC. - Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement in response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio: 'The shootings in El Paso and Dayton reveal a...
Victory in Mississippi: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms
Trial Court’s Redistricting Plan for Senate District 22 JACKSON, Miss. — Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision affirming the trial court’s judgment that the redistricting plan adopted by the Mississippi Legislature in 2012 for Senate District 22...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns Proposed HUD Regulations Impact on Fair Housing Act
WASHINGTON - Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement on reports that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) plans to issue a proposed regulation that...
Appeals court affirms lower court ruling on Craighead County judges ending private probation program
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling, siding with Craighead County District Court Judges David Boling and Tommy Fowler, who forgave all fines owed to a private probation company after they were elected in 2016, and then were...
Ruling affirms judges’ immunity
A federal appeals panel on Friday upheld a Little Rock federal judge's 2017 dismissal of a lawsuit accusing two Craighead County judges of interfering with a probation company's business by holding amnesty sessions for probationers. In late 2017, U.S. District Judge...
National Civil Rights Group Applauds 8th Circuit’s Affirmation of Arkansas Judges’ Effort to End Private Probation Company’s Involvement with Local Criminal Justice System
ST. LOUIS, MO & WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) applauds the decision of the United States Court of Appeal for the 8th Circuit upholding a District Court decision dismissing a lawsuit arising from...
Lawyers in Paper Ballot Case Accuse Georgia Officials of Destroying Evidence
A group of Georgia voters and a nonprofit election integrity organization seeking to force the state to use paper rather than electronic ballots in future elections have accused the secretary of state and governor of destroying evidence in the case. The spoliation...