by Don Owens | Dec 11, 2020 | Press Releases
(WASHINGTON) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a lost cause lawsuit brought by Texas’s Attorney General Paxton which sought to invalidate millions of votes cast by voters in four states. The following is a statement from Kristen Clarke, president and...
by Ian Weiner | Dec 9, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – YouTube announced on Wednesday that it will begin removing videos that claim widespread voter illegalities or irregularities surrounding 2020’s elections. The move comes 36 days after polls have closed and President-elect Joe Biden was the...
by Don Owens | Dec 8, 2020 | Press Releases
(WASHINGTON) – Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law president and executive director, Kristen Clarke, issued the following statement after she helped lead a discussion among civil rights leaders this afternoon with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice...
by Ian Weiner | Dec 8, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a post-election effort led by a Republican Congressmen to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania. If the court had intervened, the votes of hundreds of thousands of Black Americans...
by Ian Weiner | Dec 7, 2020 | Press Releases
(Grand Rapids, Mich.) – Federal Judge Linda Parker rejected a request from a group of Michigan Republicans, who sought a temporary restraining order against the November election results and would have disenfranchised 5.5 million voters. The Lawyers’ Committee...