(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 have been disenfranchised. The following is a statement from Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law:
“In a key victory for our democracy, our nation’s highest court has rejected a baseless attempt to alter the outcome of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania. This decision is also a key victory for Black Americans, who were the targets of this effort and many others. Black votes matter, Black voices matter, and Black Americans will not be treated as second-class citizens. We hope and expect that the Supreme Court will reject any further attempts to undermine the election.”
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About the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, was formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to involve the private bar in providing legal services to address racial discrimination. The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is to secure, through the rule of law, equal justice for all, particularly in the areas of voting rights, criminal justice, fair housing and community development, economic justice, educational opportunities, and hate crimes. For more information, please visit https://lawyerscommittee.org.
