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White Supremacists in Effort to Instill Terror, Vandalize Black Churches in D.C.
(Washington, D.C.) — The Proud Boys and other white supremacists targeted Asbury United Methodist Church and Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, two historically Black churches with acts of violence on Saturday night in the midst of pro-Trump rallies. The following is a...
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Texas’s Lost Cause Lawsuit
(WASHINGTON) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a lost cause lawsuit brought by Texas’s Attorney General Paxton which sought to invalidate millions of votes cast by voters in four states. The following is a statement from Kristen Clarke, president and executive...
866-OUR-VOTE Election Protection Hotline Available to Help Early Voters During Georgia’s U.S. Senate Runoff
(Washington, D.C.) - Legal volunteers staffing the nonpartisan Election Protection 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) hotline are available to answer calls from Georgia voters who need help requesting an absentee ballot or locating their polling place for early voting for...
YouTube Will Belatedly Begin Removing Misleading Election Information, Will Facebook and Twitter Follow Suit?
(Washington, D.C.) - YouTube announced on Wednesday that it will begin removing videos that claim widespread voter illegalities or irregularities surrounding 2020’s elections. The move comes 36 days after polls have closed and President-elect Joe Biden was the...
Restoring Civil Rights Enforcement, New Voting Rights Access Commission, Among Issues Pushed at Biden-Harris Meeting
(WASHINGTON) - Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law president and executive director, Kristen Clarke, issued the following statement after she helped lead a discussion among civil rights leaders this afternoon with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice...
Supreme Court Declines to Disenfranchise Millions of Black Americans
(Washington, D.C.) - The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a post-election effort led by a Republican Congressmen to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania. If the court had intervened, the votes of hundreds of thousands of Black Americans could...
Federal Judge Rejects Move in Michigan to Disenfranchise 5.5 Million Voters
(Grand Rapids, Mich.) - Federal Judge Linda Parker rejected a request from a group of Michigan Republicans, who sought a temporary restraining order against the November election results and would have disenfranchised 5.5 million voters. The Lawyers’ Committee for...
New York City is Actively Perpetuating Segregation in Violation of the Fair Housing Act
(NEW YORK) - The city of New York is actively perpetuating segregation in violation of the Fair Housing Act, at points relying on the Trump Administration’s regressive 2020 Disparate Impact rule to justify its discriminatory policy, a proposed amicus brief filed today...
MORE Act is a Good First-Step in Rectifying the Harm the War on Drugs Has Caused Marginalized Communities
(Washington, D.C.) - In a historic vote, the House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act 228-164 Friday, the first comprehensive marijuana reform legislation to pass a chamber of Congress that would decriminalize...
Evictions in Minnesota Would Disproportionately Impact Renters of Color, Lead to Excess COVID-19 Cases in the Hardest Hit
(MINNEAPOLIS) - A lawsuit seeking to invalidate Gov. Tom Walz’s executive order on an eviction moratorium must be dismissed, or an avalanche of evictions will occur that disproportionately impacts communities of color and those with disabilities, an amicus...
Petitioners Seeking to Disenfranchise 5.5 Million Michigan Voters Must Be Dismissed, Lawyers’ Committee Argues
(Grand Rapids, Mich.) - The Michigan Supreme Court must dismiss a petition which seeks to disenfranchise 5.5 million Michigan voters, because it is based on “outlandish conspiracy theories and entirely baseless accusations of official misconduct,” an amicus...
866-OUR-VOTE Election Protection Hotline Available to Help Voters During Georgia’s U.S. Senate Runoff
(Washington, D.C.) - Legal volunteers staffing the non-partisan Election Protection 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) hotline will be available to answer calls from Georgia voters who have questions about voting during the lead-up to the state’s Jan. 5 runoff elections. On...
N.C. Court Rejects Effort to Ban ‘I Am Change’ Civil Rights Organizer From Alamance County
(Graham, N.C.) - A N.C. court this afternoon rejected the extraordinary prosecutorial effort to ban Reverend Gregory Drumwright, leader of the Oct. 31 “I Am Change” march in Graham, N.C., from all Alamance County property. The Alamance County Sheriff...
Attorney General Barr Acknowledges Reality, Says Justice Dept. Has Not Seen Evidence of Fraud in 2020 Election
(Washington, D.C.) —In an interview on Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department did not uncover so-called voting fraud at a scale that could have changed the outcome of the presidential election result. Kristen Clarke, president and executive...
Civil Rights Era Veterans, Legal Scholars, and Historians File Amicus Briefs in Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump
A host of Civil Rights Era veterans, legal scholars and Reconstruction Era historians have filed amicus briefs in Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump, in support for holding government officials and law-enforcement accountable for their attack on nonviolent racial...