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P.R.O.T.E.C.T – A Guide for Law Enforcement Engagement with Students of Color
National Civil Rights Group Responds to Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Census Case
WASHINGTON, DC – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the challenge to the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision...
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Co-Counsel File Discrimination Charge Against Georgia Tech & the University System of Georgia Over their Use of Criminal History Records to Deny Jobs
ATLANTA, GA – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Outten & Golden LLP, and Atlanta-based Buckley Beal LLP recently filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the Georgia Institute of Technology...
Statement on William Barr Confirmation
Washington, DC – Today, in response to the United States Senate voting to confirm William Barr, President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General of the United States, Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,...
Closing Arguments Begin Today in Federal Trial Challenging Trump Administration’s 2020 Census Citizenship Question
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Public Counsel, along with law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips will deliver closing arguments in the City of San Jose v. Ross, a lawsuit that challenges the late addition of a citizenship...
Closing Arguments Begin Today in Federal Trial Challenging Trump Administration’s 2020 Census Citizenship Question
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Public Counsel, along with law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips will deliver closing arguments in the City of San Jose v. Ross, a lawsuit that challenges the late addition of a...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to Deliver Closing Arguments in SFFA v. Harvard
Boston, MA – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law will deliver their closing arguments in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) vs. Harvard in Federal District Court in Boston, MA in support of Harvard’s race-conscious holistic...
Victory in Mississippi: Federal Court Requires Redrawing of Mississippi Senate District 22 In Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Lawsuit
JACKSON, Miss. — Federal District Judge Carlton Reeves issued an order today declaring that the district lines of State Senate District 22 violate Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act. Judge Reeves said that the legislature should have the first opportunity to...
National Civil Rights Group Commends NYS Legislation Expanding Voting Rights
ALBANY, NY – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee), who joins Governor Andrew Cuomo today as he signs historic legislation expanding voting rights in New York State,issued the...
National Civil Rights Group Responds to Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Vote Fraud Allegations
Washington, DC– Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issues the following statement in response to an announcement made by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton regarding alleged non-U.S. citizen on the...
Civil Rights Organizations Sue Texas Officials Over Attempted Voter Purge
GALVESTON, Texas – The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the national ACLU, the Texas Civil Rights Project, Demos, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed today a lawsuit against the Texas Secretary of State David Whitley for the creation...
A Reversal of Rights
Throughout all levels of government, we are witnessing an overall reversal of Obama-era positions on discrimination policies, and a reversal on civil rights in general. "Since the 1960s, when these major laws were first enacted, we've never seen an administration so...
Many Texas Voters Whose Citizenship Was Questioned Are in Fact Citizens
A claim made last week by the Texas secretary of state — that 95,000 registered voters had a citizenship status that could not be determined — appeared to fall apart on Tuesday when local election officials said many of the people were known to be United States citizens. Some registered to vote when they applied for a driver’s license at the Texas Department of Public Safety, which requires them to prove citizenship status to state officials.
National Civil Rights Group Commends NYS Legislation Expanding Voting Rights
ALBANY, NY – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee), who joins Governor Andrew Cuomo today as he signs historic legislation expanding voting rights in New York State, issued the...
Cyntoia Brown, William Barr, and Juvenile Life Without Parole
Last week, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam granted Cyntoia Brown clemency for a crime committed when she was sixteen years old. Convicted as an adult for murder and given a life sentence, she faced the prospect of living most or all of the rest of her life in...