WASHINGTON – In an opinion piece in USA Today, Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Joyce White Vance, professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, called for the U.S. Department of Justice to take action to address the deadly brutality in Alabama’s men’s prisons.
WASHINGTON – Kirstjen Nielsen steps down as Secretary of Homeland Security with an indefensible legacy of cruel and inhumane civil and human rights violations. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights outlined some of the most egregious actions during Nielsen's tenure, and calls for a fundamental change in the direction of the department.
WASHINGTON – Kristine Lucius, executive vice president for policy and government affairs at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the Senate’s vote to advance the nomination of Patrick Wyrick to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma:
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the introduction of the Bringing an End to Harassment by Enhancing Accountability and Rejecting Discrimination (BE HEARD) in the Workplace Act:
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: