WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, April 3 at 3:00 p.m. ET, leading civil rights organizations and fair courts experts will host a telephone press briefing 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.
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, along with 176 other grassroots, advocacy, labor, legal services, education, and faith-based organizations, submitted a “friend of the court” brief in Department of Commerce v. New York supporting the lower court’s decision barring Secretary of Commerce Ross from adding a new, untested, and unnecessary citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The groups make clear that adding the citizenship question would harm the communities who stand to lose the most if the 2020 Census includes a citizenship question.
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and its sister organization, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, welcomed Ron Goines as the Director of Major Gifts and Corporate Relations and Rafael Medina as a Communications Manager.
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference Education Fund today launched a new campaign, “New Era of Public Safety” featuring groundbreaking tools to increase trust, fairness, justice, and mutual respect between police departments and the communities they serve.
WASHINGTON – Civil rights leaders and census experts held a press call today to announce a national day of action on April 1 to elevate the importance of a fair and accurate 2020 Census. That day marks one year from Census Day, when the census will be in full swing. The U.S. Constitution requires a census every ten years to ensure equal representation for all communities. Census data also influence the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal resources. It is imperative that the government counts every person in our country equally well.
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the bipartisan passage of a House resolution rejecting President Trump’s transgender military service ban:
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the House passage of H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act:
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ unexplained refusal to appear before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science next week:
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