by Don Owens | Jul 16, 2020 | Press Releases
(PITTSBURGH) – The Trump administration and the Republican party are attempting to limit Pennsylvanians’ constitutionally protected right to vote by preventing the use of ballot drop-off locations a filing showed today in the U.S. District Court for Western District...
by Don Owens | Jul 8, 2020 | Press Releases
NOTE TO REPORTERS Civil rights groups led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a motion today to add Washington D.C. Chief of Police, Peter Newsham, and unnamed D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers as defendants in the early-June...
by Don Owens | Jul 1, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – In a late-night tweet, President Trump signaled that his administration may end the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) program enacted under President Obama. AFFH was added to the Fair Housing Act of 1968 to fight historic patterns...
by Don Owens | Jun 24, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The U.S. Senate voted 52-48 today to confirm Cory Wilson to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The following is a statement from Erinn D. Martin, policy counsel at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law:...
by Don Owens | Jun 18, 2020 | Press Releases
Lawyers’ Committee Co-Leads Efforts to Pressure Facebook to Pull Trump Ads Associated With ‘Organized Hate’ Statement of Lawyers’ Committee Under Law Expert (WASHINGTON, DC) – In response to reports from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and other...