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Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Free Press Action Release Proposed “Online Civil Rights and Privacy Act” to Combat Data Discrimination.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Free Press Action release model legislation for Congress to consider in its ongoing online privacy debates. This bill prioritizes combating civil rights harms from the invasive privacy...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Virginia Civic Engagement Round Table Pen Letter to Governor Northam Calling for Veto of SB 1038 Voter Registration “Verification”
Groups claim legislation would impose severe burdens on Virginians ability to register and to cast vote Washington, D.C. – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Virginia Civic Engagement Table recently sent a letter to Virginia Governor Ralph...
Liberian Immigrants Sue President Trump
Families, Community Groups, and Civil Rights Organizations File Lawsuit to Protect Life-Saving Immigration Program BOSTON, MA – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Lawyers for Civil Rights jointly filed a lawsuit today challenging President Donald...
Second federal judge thwarts Trump administration plan to ask about citizenship in 2020 Census
The Trump administration's effort to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 Census was struck down Wednesday by a second federal judge. The citizenship question, already blocked by a federal judge in New York and scheduled to be addressed by...
Second Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Adding Census Citizenship Question
A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration Wednesday from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, saying the decision ran afoul of federal law and was unconstitutional. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg is the...
Second Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Census Citizenship Question Plans
A second federal judge has issued a court order to block the Trump administration's plans to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of California found that the administration's decision to add the question...
California Judge Rejects Trump Administration Effort to Include Citizenship Question on 2020 Census
San Jose, CA – Today, a federal court rejected the Department of Commerce’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Public Counsel, along with law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips represented...
Why Facebook, Google, and Twitter don’t want to be media companies
To understand why social media giants don’t want to be considered media companies, all you have to do is to compare the price/earnings ratios of Disney and Twitter. There are other reasons why Twitter, (which has a P/E of 19.6) might carry a higher valuation than...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Urges Congress to Pass Empower Act
Comprehensive Legislation Protects those who face Harassment in the Workplace Washington, D.C. – Today, in support of the re-introduction of the Empower Act, Kristen Clarke President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law made the...
In Alabama Reflecting on Need for Voting Rights Act Fix
Fifty-four years ago, hundreds of hopeful African Americans assembled at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge to begin a march that would result in transformation of American democracy. But first, before they could realize their dream of being able to register to...
Why the North Carolina ballot theft scheme has shown us we need the VRA restored
A widespread absentee ballot fraud scheme in Bladen County, North Carolina, caused the state’s Election Board to order a new election. Bladen County operative Leslie McCrae Dowless paid people to illegally collect absentee ballots from voters’ doorsteps, even having...
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Issues Statement on Texas Federal Judge’s Order to Stop Purging Voters
SAN ANTONIO, C.A. - A federal judge in San Antonio today ordered local officials in Texas not to remove any person from the current voter registration list until authorized by the Court and without prior approval of the Court with a conclusive showing that the person...
H.R. 4 Provides “Strong Medicine” to Address Widespread Voter Suppression
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Statement in Support of “The Voting Rights Advancement Act” Washington D.C. – Today, in response to the introduction of H.R. 4: “The Voting Rights Advancement Act” in the 116th Congress, Kristen Clarke, President and...
North Carolina Republican Calls For New Election In His Congressional Race That Suppressed The Black Vote
A North Carolina Republican caught in the middle of a voter suppression scandal called on Thursday for a new election in a disputed 2018 congressional race in which he was initially declared the winner.
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Issues Statement In Response To Burberry’s “Noose Hoodie” on Display at London Fashion Week
WASHINGTON -D.C. – In response to news high-end luxury fashion brand Burberry featured a hoodie featuring a noose around the collar as part of its autumn/winter collection, Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights...