by Damon Hewitt | Nov 7, 2024 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
Yesterday’s election results confirmed a critical truth: our democracy and hard-fought rights are under attack. With Donald Trump poised to assume the presidency again, many of us are rightfully concerned about an agenda that threatens to roll back progress,...
by Press | Nov 6, 2024 | Blog
WASHINGTON D.C. – As called by the Associated Press, Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. In response to this news, Damon T. Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, released...
by Press | Nov 5, 2024 | Blog
A federal court today denied the request by the Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party for a preliminary injunction that could have stopped the counting of absentee ballots that were hand-delivered to the county elections’...
by Press | Oct 29, 2024 | Blog
On Sunday the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Friday ruling that stopped Virginia’s unlawful voter purge program. Virginia was sued because its purge program disenfranchised new citizens and other eligible voters. The plaintiffs are Virginia...
by Press | Sep 12, 2024 | Blog
In April 2024, a group of students and teachers from Little Rock Central High School, along with the NAACP Arkansas State Conference, filed a federal lawsuit challenging Section 16 of the LEARNS Act. Plaintiffs argued that the LEARNS Act’s prohibition on...
by Press | Aug 30, 2023 | Blog
In response to Saturday’s tragic, racially motivated mass shooting in Jacksonville, FL Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement: “The horrific mass shooting in...
