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WASHINGTON — The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the nation’s oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights coalition, recently welcomed three new senior-level staff members and seven new member organizations to its board of directors.
WASHINGTON — The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 68 other organizations today wrote to the acting assistant attorney general of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to sound the alarm about the department’s efforts to undermine the nation’s federal civil rights laws and to demand that the DOJ and Civil Rights Division advance — rather than corrode — civil rights protections under law.
WASHINGTON — Today, civil rights leaders and impacted voters came together to highlight the devastating impact the SAVE Act would have on our communities and our power to make the decisions that shape our futures. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to put the SAVE Act (H.R. 22) up for a vote this week, our elected officials must put voters first and reject this dangerous attack on the freedom to vote of all.
WASHINGTON — The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights today joined with 133 other civil rights organizations representing millions of people to release an open letter titled “Our Rights Are at Stake. We Will Not Be Silenced.”
WASHINGTON — Jesselyn McCurdy, executive vice president for government affairs at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s executive order seeking to upend our elections and disenfranchise millions of voters:
WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement on the proposed plan to eliminate the Department of Education:
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The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Media/Telecommunications Task Force released the following statement in response to the firing of FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter: