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CLC Challenges Requirement that Puts Rhode Island Voters at Risk of Contracting COVID-19
States need to make reasonable accommodations so voters can cast a ballot without unnecessary risk of contracting COVID-19. But far too often, they don’t make these changes voluntarily, so advocacy groups have to take states to court. Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a federal lawsuit on July 23, 2020 challenging Rhode Island’s witness/notary requirements for voting by mail throughout the 2020 elections.
CLC's Senior Director of Voting Rights and Redistricting Remembers Rep. John Lewis
I am writing this piece to pay tribute to John Lewis, a man I first met nearly 40 years ago. Much has already been eloquently written about this great American hero. How he was a strong symbol of what it means to be an American, and how he taught us to march on toward a more just country, even when the struggle seemed too hard and we felt too tired to go on. How he lived his life in a way that inspired us to live up to his example.
Symposium: The right to vote in peace
J. Gerald Hebert is the senior director for voting rights and redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center. American political campaigns are extended crescendos of vitriol. Passions and tempers run high. But at the end of all the viciousness, the citizens cast their votes. They have the right to do so in a place of peaceful contemplation. For tens of millions of Americans who vote in person, the voting process is designed to foster such contemplation.
Civil Rights Attorney Claimed Jeff Sessions Wanted to Ignore KKK-Lynching Case
Days before his confirmation hearings are scheduled to begin, Jeff Sessions, Trump’s pick for Attorney General, asserted that he prosecuted a Ku Klux Klan related lynching nearly 30-years ago in a questionnaire that he submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee. However, Thomas Figures, an assistant U.S. attorney who worked under Sessions as U.S. attorney in Alabama at the time of the lynching case, said otherwise.
Jeff Sessions want us to believe he’s a civil rights champion. He isn’t.
Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions is trying to mislead his Senate colleagues and the country into believing he is a champion for civil rights. We are former Justice Department civil rights lawyers who worked on the civil rights cases that Sessions cites as evidence for this claim, so we know: The record isn’t Sessions’ to burnish. We won’t let the nominee misstate his civil rights history to get the job of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
Commentary: Attorney general nominee greatly distorts his record on civil rights cases - The Portland Press Herald
Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions is trying to mislead his Senate colleagues, and the country, into believing he is a champion for civil rights. We are former Justice Department civil rights lawyers who worked on the civil rights cases that Sessions cites as evidence for this claim, so we know: The record isn’t Sessions’ to burnish. We won’t let the nominee misstate his civil rights history to get the job of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
Jeff Sessions says he handled these civil rights cases. He barely touched them.
Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions is trying to mislead his Senate colleagues, and the country, into believing he is a champion for civil rights. We are former Justice Department civil rights lawyers who worked on the civil rights cases that Sessions cites as evidence for this claim, so we know: The record isn’t Sessions’s to burnish. We won’t let the nominee misstate his civil rights history to get the job of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
J. Gerald Hebert column: Why I told the Senate that Jeff Sessions thought civil rights groups were 'un-American' - Richmond Times-Dispatch: Guest-columnists
Five years later, that startling incident came up again, after Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship. The American Bar Association contacted me and my supervisor to ask for background on Sessions, as was standard in those days for judicial confirmations.
Why I told the Senate that Jeff Sessions thought civil rights groups were ‘un-American’ | News & Observer
I was a young lawyer in the civil rights division at the Justice Department in 1981 when I first encountered Jeff Sessions, then the new U.S. attorney for Alabama. I met him while I was handling a voting rights case in Mobile, and I relayed a rumor I’d heard: A federal judge there had allegedly referred to a civil rights lawyer as “a traitor to his race” for taking on black clients.
Courts are finally pointing out the racism behind voter ID laws
Laws targeting minority voters are no different today than they were during the Jim Crow era. By J.
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