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Senate Votes to Confirm Neomi Rao to Serve on D.C. Court of Appeals
Earlier positions on Affirmative Action, Civil Rights and Disparate Impact Standards Far from Mainstream America Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to the U.S. Senate voting to confirm Neomi Rao to serve on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Releases Statement in Response to the DOJ’s Largest Ever College Admissions Prosecution
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, as federal prosecutors in Boston announced charges against fifty people in six states as part of an alleged large-scale college entrance bribery scheme, Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil...
Marijuana legalization must make War on Drugs’ victims whole before companies profit
For Amazon-owned Whole Foods to get the right to sell a single pot brownie, every non-violent marijuana-related conviction must be thrown out.
Civil Rights Group Files Brief in Support of Recognizing Partisan Gerrymandering Claims
Washington, D.C. – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and pro bono counsel Fish & Richardson P.C. and Robinson Bradshaw filed an amicus curiae or “friend of the court” on Friday with the United States Supreme Court in support of the Plaintiffs’...
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...