by Don Owens | Mar 7, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – On the 56-year mark of Alabama’s brutal Bloody Sunday attack on Black communities, their allies, and democracy itself, President Joe Biden released recorded remarks this morning calling for Senate passage of the national Lawyers’...
by Don Owens | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog
(RICHMOND, Va.) – Dominion Energy (NYSE: D), together with the company’s charitable foundation, will contribute $1 million to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a national civil rights organization with the mission to secure equal justice for all...
by Don Owens | Feb 24, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – National Civil rights leaders called on the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Georgy Floyd Justice in Policing Act today, a critical step to holding law enforcement accountable for unconstitutional and unethical conduct. The 2020...
by Don Owens | Jan 29, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson rescinded former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ 2017 charging policy which required federal prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense” in a memo today to all federal...
by Don Owens | Jan 26, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – President Joseph R. Biden is expected to sign executive orders Tuesday on what the White House is calling his racial equity agenda. Executive actions will address housing, voting and police practices, criminal justice, health care, education...