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Lawyers’ Committee Releases Statement Denouncing HR 9495
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law released the following statement from its President and Executive Director, Damon T. Hewitt, on H.R. 9495 in Congress. The proposed bill, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American...
We Will Not Back Down — Our Fight for Justice is More Urgent Than Ever
Yesterday’s election results confirmed a critical truth: our democracy and hard-fought rights are under attack. With Donald Trump poised to assume the presidency again, many of us are rightfully concerned about an agenda that threatens to roll back progress,...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Responds to General Election Results
WASHINGTON D.C. – As called by the Associated Press, Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. In response to this news, Damon T. Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, released the...
Federal Court Decision Means Absentee Ballots Hand-Delivered in Georgia Over the Weekend Will be Counted
A federal court today denied the request by the Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party for a preliminary injunction that could have stopped the counting of absentee ballots that were hand-delivered to the county elections' offices...
Voting Rights and Virginia Immigrant Rights Groups Outraged at SCOTUS Decision Allowing Virginia to Purge Eligible Voters
A recording of a press conference on this matter can be found here. Washington, DC—Immigrant rights and voting rights organizations are disappointed and alarmed the United States Supreme Court has allowed Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to wrongfully...
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ruling to Stop Virginia’s Voter Purge
On Sunday the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Friday ruling that stopped Virginia’s unlawful voter purge program. Virginia was sued because its purge program disenfranchised new citizens and other eligible voters. The plaintiffs are Virginia...
Victory: Federal Court Judge Stops Virginia’s Voter Purge After State Was Sued
Alexandria, Va. — Today, the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights (VACIR), the League of Women Voters of Virginia (LWVVA), and African Communities Together (ACT) successfully defended new citizens who were unfairly targeted in Virginia’s illegal and...
NC NAACP, Voters Urge Court to Prevent Last-Minute Voter Purge
DURHAM, N.C. (Oct. 24, 2024)— The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and two voters are urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to stop a dangerous attempt to purge a quarter of a million registered voters from North Carolina’s...
Lawyers’ Committee and Allies Block Hand Counting Effort in Major Court Ruling
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected an attempt to force an emergency appeal of a court ruling that struck down several State Election Board rules, including a rule that would have required the hand counting of ballots in the upcoming November...
Court Blocks Georgia’s New Hand Counting Rule in Victory for Voters
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 16, 2024 ATLANTA — A state court today permanently blocked the Georgia State Election Board’s new rule requiring the hand counting of ballots in the upcoming November election. Earlier this month, a coalition of civil rights organizations...
Civil Rights Groups: Extend Voter Registration Deadline as State Recovers from Hurricane Helene
ATLANTA— The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the law firm Cooley LLP filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to extend the voter registration deadline, as...
Lawsuit Challenges Recent Voter Roll Purges in Virginia Preventing Eligible US citizens from Voting
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – Today, the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights and the League of Women Voters of Virginia filed a lawsuit in federal court to challenge the state’s policy of illegally and systematically removing voters from the rolls only one month before the...
Voting Rights Advocates Move to Intervene in Suit to Protect 5,000 Georgia Voters at Risk of Removal from the November Election Rolls
Suit by the DeKalb County Republican Party Seeks to Force the Dekalb Board of Elections to conduct voter challenge hearings in violation of federal law DeKalb, Georgia – Today, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, New Georgia Project, Georgia Coalition for the...
Lawyers’ Committee Honored with EPIC’s 2024 Privacy Champion Award
Washington, D.C., September 25, 2024 — The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is proud to announce that its President and Executive Director, Damon Hewitt, accepted the Privacy Champion Award on behalf of the Lawyers' Committee at Electronic Privacy...
Lawyers’ Committee Defends Anti-Discrimination Rules that Expand Broadband Access to Low Income Families Before Federal Appeals Court
St. LOUIS, MO — Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the FCC argued Wednesday before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in defense of new rules prohibiting discrimination by broadband providers. The rules, issued by the Federal Communications Commission,...