by Press | Feb 3, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The Department of Justice announced today that it will be dropping its lawsuit against Yale University, which had alleged the university was discriminating against white and certain Asian American applicants in its admissions process. The...
by Press | Jan 29, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson rescinded former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ 2017 charging policy which required federal prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense” in a memo today to all federal...
by Press | Jan 16, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh issued an order on Friday night in National Urban League v. Ross which will help ensure that the 2020 census adheres to the U.S. Constitution and counts every resident of the United States. Civil rights,...
by Press | Jan 7, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – President-elect Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Kristen Clarke (bio), the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to be the nation’s nineteenth Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights....
by Press | Dec 1, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) —In an interview on Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department did not uncover so-called voting fraud at a scale that could have changed the outcome of the presidential election result. Kristen Clarke, president and executive...
