by Press | Mar 4, 2019 | Blog
Fifty-four years ago, hundreds of hopeful African Americans assembled at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge to begin a march that would result in transformation of American democracy. But first, before they could realize their dream of being able to register to...
by Press | Mar 1, 2019 | Blog
A widespread absentee ballot fraud scheme in Bladen County, North Carolina, caused the state’s Election Board to order a new election. Bladen County operative Leslie McCrae Dowless paid people to illegally collect absentee ballots from voters’ doorsteps, even having...
by Press | Feb 27, 2019 | Press Releases
SAN ANTONIO, C.A. – A federal judge in San Antonio today ordered local officials in Texas not to remove any person from the current voter registration list until authorized by the Court and without prior approval of the Court with a conclusive showing that the...
by Press | Feb 27, 2019 | Press Releases
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Statement in Support of “The Voting Rights Advancement Act” Washington D.C. – Today, in response to the introduction of H.R. 4: “The Voting Rights Advancement Act” in the 116th Congress, Kristen Clarke, President and...
by Press | Feb 21, 2019 | Newsclips
A North Carolina Republican caught in the middle of a voter suppression scandal called on Thursday for a new election in a disputed 2018 congressional race in which he was initially declared the winner.
