by Press | Mar 7, 2019 | Newsclips
A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration Wednesday from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, saying the decision ran afoul of federal law and was unconstitutional. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg is the...
by Press | Mar 7, 2019 | Newsclips
A second federal judge has issued a court order to block the Trump administration’s plans to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of California found that the administration’s decision to add the...
by Press | Mar 6, 2019 | Press Releases
San Jose, CA – Today, a federal court rejected the Department of Commerce’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Public Counsel, along with law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips represented...
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...
