by Press | Nov 19, 2020 | Press Releases
(ATLANTA) – U.S. District Judge Steven Grimberg rebuffed a last-minute lawsuit by L. Lin Wood seeking to block the state of Georgia from certifying its election results. The following is statement from Kristen Clarke, president and executive director, Lawyers’...
by Press | Sep 26, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett today to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the United States Supreme Court. Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil...
by Press | Sep 25, 2020 | Press Releases
(SAN JOSE, Calif.) – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California last night issued an order blocking the Trump administration’s attempts to rush the 2020 Census to a close while a legal challenge to that plan plays out in the courts. The court’s...
by Press | Sep 8, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) –The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s new Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice rule goes into effect today, marking a major step backwards in the ongoing fight for fair housing in the United...
by Press | Sep 5, 2020 | Press Releases
(SAN FRANCISCO) – The Trump administration’s last-minute move to terminate 2020 census operations would likely lead to a massive undercount of millions of people in the United States – many of them African-American, immigrants and other people of color – a federal...
