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WASHINGTON – In a powerful op-ed for The Washington Post, Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Cynthia M. Deitle, the Matthew Shepard Foundation’s director of civil rights reform and a former special agent with the FBI, discuss why Congress should not create a new domestic terrorism charge.
WASHINGTON — Pointing out America is in dire need of a course correction at the Justice Department, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights released a letter today signed by 59 organizations urging the Senate to consider and confirm Judge Merrick Garland as Attorney General of the United States. The organizations also urged Senators to ask Judge Garland questions during the confirmation process about his views on a full array of civil rights and criminal justice policy matters.
WASHINGTON — With 2020 igniting a national reckoning over the American criminal legal system, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Civil Rights Corps are launching Vision for Justice — a new campaign that aims to reimagine public safety and offer a better alternative to the current criminal legal system.
WASHINGTON – In a piece for SCOTUSBlog, LaShawn Warren, executive vice president of government affairs at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, explains the importance of the upcoming oral argument in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, which concerns racially discriminatory voting laws in Arizona.
WASHINGTON – Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement on the U.S. Senate’s failure to convict Donald Trump on charges of inciting an insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol.
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference Education Fund, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Civil Rights Corps will convene advocates, celebrities, directly impacted leaders, and policymakers for a virtual summit to outline their unified vision to reimagine public safety and transform the criminal legal system on February 19 at 12 noon ET.
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WASHINGTON — A group of 82 organizations signed on to a letter sent to President Biden today asking him to “act on [his] promise of ensuring equality, equity, and justice in our criminal legal system by immediately commuting the sentences of all individuals under federal sentence of death, and reinstating the federal moratorium on the use of the death penalty.” The letter was circulated by the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
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