by Press | 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 Press | 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 Press | Oct 22, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-0 along party lines this morning to advance the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the full Senate, as Democrats boycotted. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated Barrett’s...
by Press | Oct 19, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it would not halt a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court extending the state’s ballot receipt deadline. The following is a statement from Kristen Clarke, president and executive director at the...
by Press | Oct 13, 2020 | Press Releases
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law released its report evaluating the full civil rights record of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett today, examining her record on civil rights matters, including workers’ rights, criminal justice, voting rights,...
