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WASHINGTON – Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Judge Elizabeth Hanes to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
WASHINGTON—Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement on President Biden's Safer America Plan:
WASHINGTON – Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement on Meta’s plan to determine whether its product works fairly across racial lines by surveying its Instagram users to voluntarily provide their race:
WASHINGTON – Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brad Garcia for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
WASHINGTON — Leading civil rights organizations released the following joint statement urging Congress to fully address the assault on our democracy, including urgent threats to voting rights for people of color:
WASHINGTON – Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Senate’s vote to confirm Judge J. Michelle Childs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit:
WASHINGTON – Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement on the Senate’s vote to confirm Nancy Maldonado to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois:
WASHINGTON — Liz King, senior program director, education equity at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on school discipline guidance from the U.S. Department of Education: