The Leadership Conference Condemns House Passage of SAVE Act
WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the House passed the SAVE Act (H.R. 22):
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WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the House passed the SAVE Act (H.R. 22):
WASHINGTON — Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program and an advisor at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 1526, the No Rogue Rulings Act (NORRA):
WASHINGTON — More than two hundred state legislators representing 43 states, in partnership with The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the NAACP, wrote to President Trump urging him to reverse course on his agenda to dismantle the Department of Education.
WASHINGTON — Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program and an advisor at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after the Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon to serve as assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice:
WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after Senator Cory Booker delivered the longest floor speech in Senate history:
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.
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