by Don Owens | 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 Don Owens | Nov 17, 2020 | Press Releases
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the co-chairs of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights’ Voting Rights Task Force, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and MALDEF, issued the following statement regarding...
by Ian Weiner | Sep 23, 2020 | Press Releases
(ATLANTA) – The Georgia NAACP and the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda are moving to stop 14,000 voters from being purged from the rolls before November’s general election, after a lawsuit was filed by two Fulton County voters which seeks to force the...
by Don Owens | Sep 2, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – A federal district court judge in Georgia denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against DeKalb County officials in a case where officials have been accused of illegally purging voters from the...
by Don Owens | Jul 30, 2020 | Press Releases
The following is a statement from Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law:“Dictators and despots seek to delay elections and rig the rules to maintain their grip on power. But this has never been the...