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Lawyers’ Committee Statement on Supreme Court Ruling in Trump v. United States
WASHINGTON—On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Donald J. Trump v. United States. The ruling gives a president immunity from prosecution for crimes committed through official acts as president. For some acts–for powers the Constitution...
Lawyers’ Committee Applauds Supreme Court Ruling in NetChoice Cases
WASHINGTON—On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton. The Court vacated the lower court decisions and sent the cases back to the courts for reconsideration. The Court held the lower courts did not use the...
Lawyers’ Committee Statement One Year Since the U.S. Supreme Court Limited the Use of Race in College Admissions
WASHINGTON—June 29th marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in SFFA v. Harvard/ UNC-Chapel Hill undermining the use of race in college admissions. The Lawyers’ Committee litigated both cases from the beginning and argued the UNC case before the...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Statement About the U.S. Supreme Court’s Ruling in Case about Criminalizing Homelessness
The Lawyers’ Committee submitted the amicus brief in the case here. The following statement is from Thomas Silverstein, Acting Director of the Fair Housing & Community Development Project. “The Court’s conclusion that sleeping outside when there...
Lawyers’ Committee Responds to Supreme Court Rejection of Case Challenging Government Ability to Communicate with Social Media Companies about Mis- and Disinformation
WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, in Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General, et al., v. Missouri, et al., the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the federal government’s ability to communicate with social media companies to tackle misinformation on their platforms....
Civil Society Organizations Urge Markup Delay for Privacy Bill, Restoration of Civil Rights Protections
More than 50 groups send letter to House Energy and Commerce leadership calling for postponement unless civil rights issues fixed WASHINGTON —The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the...
Lawyers’ Committee Opposes New Draft of American Privacy Rights Act, Urges Representatives to Vote No
Current draft bill strips out civil rights protections and weakens privacy. WASHINGTON—- The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law released the following statement in response to the most recent draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA). The...
Federal Court Partially Halts Oklahoma’s Classroom Censorship Law
OKLAHOMA —A federal court granted a partial preliminary injunction that will blunt the impact of Oklahoma’s classroom censorship law, HB 1775, which sought to severely restrict teachers and students in K-12 public schools and public universities from...
Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Restrict Access to Abortion Medication Mifepristone
WASHINGTON—On Thursday, the Supreme Court in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, rejected an attempt by anti-abortion groups to block the Food and Drug Administration's actions loosening restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone. Though the Court...
Lawyers’ Committee Continues Fight for Racial Equity as Lawsuit Stalls Fearless Fund Grant Program
WASHINGTON—On Monday, in American Alliance for Equal Rights vs. Fearless Fund Management LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit overturned a district court’s decision and ordered a further pause to the Fearless Fund awarding any grants in the Fearless...
Supreme Court Allows Racial Gerrymandering in South Carolina, Lawyers’ Committee Decries Ruling
WASHINGTON--On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, reversing a federal court’s finding that ruled South Carolina’s redistricting of Congressional District 1 was an...
Senate AI Report Does Not Sufficiently Protect Civil Rights, Falls Short on Proposed Solutions
Legislation Needed Now to Prevent Discrimination and Other Harms, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Urges Congress to Use its Model AI Bill as Blueprint WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN),...
Court Upholds Teacher and Student Rights in Challenge to Arkansas Classroom Censorship Law
(Ark.)—On Tuesday, a federal court issued a ruling on the controversial classroom censorship provision of the Arkansas’ LEARNS Act, Section 16. The court upheld student’s right to receive information and ideas and issued a partial injunction, prohibiting Arkansas from...
Groups that Sued State React to Signing of Legislation to Create a New Majority Black Voting District for a Louisiana Supreme Court Seat
On Wednesday, the Governor of Louisiana signed legislation that gives Black voters in the Baton Rouge area an equal opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice to the Louisiana Supreme Court by creating a judicial election district with a majority of Black voters...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Statement on HHS’s Nondiscrimination in Health Care Rule
WASHINGTON–On Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a final rule implementing the Health Care Rights Law, otherwise known as Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. Section 1557 prohibits discrimination in...