by Damon Hewitt | Nov 7, 2024 | Press Releases
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,...
by Press | Nov 6, 2024 | Press Releases
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...
by Press | Nov 5, 2024 | Press Releases
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’...
by Press | Oct 29, 2024 | Press Releases
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...