by Molly Horak | Jul 24, 2019 | Newsclips
A coalition of powerful players in Miami-Dade County’s legal system is coming together on Monday to claim that the vast majority of people with a felony conviction in the county are likely to be able to register to vote, even if they still owe court fines and fees....
by Molly Horak | Jul 24, 2019 | Newsclips
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The maps used to elect Louisiana’s seven state Supreme Court justices are discriminatory against African American voters, according to a civil rights group’s lawsuit filed Tuesday. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge seeks a...
by Molly Horak | Jul 24, 2019 | Newsclips
WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s director said the bureau has abandoned the term “black identity extremism” as part of a broad reconceptualization of how it thinks about racially motivated crime. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI...
by Molly Horak | Jul 23, 2019 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2019 Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Files Voting Rights Lawsuit Against Louisiana Over Discriminatory Maps for State Supreme Court Only 2 African Americans Elected to State’s Highest Court Since 1904, Suit Seeks to Address...
by Molly Horak | Jul 18, 2019 | Newsclips
Today’s guest hosts are Charlotte Hancock, Communications Director for Generation Progress, and Brent Cohen, Executive Director of Generation Progress and the VP of the Center for American Progress. They discuss two very important and timely topics during...
