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WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the advancement of the nominations of Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit:
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the Senate’s vote to reduce post-cloture debate time on district court judicial nominees:
WASHINGTON – Leading civil rights organizations and fair courts experts hosted a telephone press briefing today to discuss Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s brazen partisan power grab in his latest attempt to change the rules on debate time for nominees who would serve on our federal courts for decades to come. Experts discussed the Senate Republicans’ willingness to break any rules necessary to stack our courts with anti-civil rights judges, no matter the harm it will bring American communities.
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement in advance of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s April 3 budget hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. Pai has reportedly proposed to cap the Universal Service Fund programs, which provide essential funding for affordable telecommunications services for low-income households, including Lifeline:
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, April 3 at 3:00 p.m. ET, leading civil rights organizations and fair courts experts will host a telephone press briefing to discuss Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s brazen partisan power grab in his latest attempt to change the rules on debate time for nominees who would serve on our federal courts for decades to come.
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, along with 176 other grassroots, advocacy, labor, legal services, education, and faith-based organizations, submitted a “friend of the court” brief in Department of Commerce v. New York supporting the lower court’s decision barring Secretary of Commerce Ross from adding a new, untested, and unnecessary citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The groups make clear that adding the citizenship question would harm the communities who stand to lose the most if the 2020 Census includes a citizenship question.
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and its sister organization, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, welcomed Ron Goines as the Director of Major Gifts and Corporate Relations and Rafael Medina as a Communications Manager.
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference Education Fund today launched a new campaign, “New Era of Public Safety” featuring groundbreaking tools to increase trust, fairness, justice, and mutual respect between police departments and the communities they serve.
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