Kristen Clarke on Democracy Now! “What Are They Hiding?”

Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sat down with Democracy Now! ahead of Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS confirmation hearing to discuss the Trump Administration’s suppression of 100k documents related to Kavanaugh’s record.

Report on the Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

After reviewing the currently available record of Judge Kavanaugh, we have concluded there is sufficient cause in the record to strongly oppose his confirmation. Our Report on the Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court analyzes his record on issues of affirmative action, criminal justice, economic justice, environmental justice, housing, and voting to draw this conclusion.

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds to Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court

Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court of the United States.

We took action against Randolph County, GA over its discriminatory decision to shutter 7 of 9 polling sites — and the polls will remain open! The voters won. We can fight back against voter suppression and win!

The Lawyers’ Committee in conjunction with our partners has filed suit against Arizona’s Secretary of State

The National Voter Registration Act was meant to make it easier for voters to register and to stay registered to vote. Arizona’s practices violate federal laws and are antithetical to these goals. With this suit, we seek to make sure that no eligible Arizona voter will be turned away at the polls.

The national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Boston-based Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), and pro bono counsel, Arnold & Porter, today filed an amicus curiae, “friend of the court,” brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to support the defendant’s motion for summary judgement in the lawsuit challenging Harvard’s race-conscious holistic admissions policy (Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard).

Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued a statement following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 judgement in Abbott v. Perez, overturning a lower court’s finding that Texas intentionally discriminated on the basis of race in redrawing its congressional and state political districts after the 2010 census.