WASHINGTON — Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Senate Judiciary Committee vote split along party lines on the nomination of Kristen Clarke to serve as assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice:
WASHINGTON – Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the introduction of S.1541, the Martha Reed-Wright Just and Reasonable Communications Act, legislation that clarifies the Federal Communications Commission’s jurisdiction over intrastate rates for telephone calls from prisons
WASHINGTON – Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement regarding the Facebook Oversight Board’s decision to continue, for now, Donald Trump’s suspension from the platform.
WASHINGTON — Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement regarding the Senate’s passage of the Extending Temporary Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues Act
WASHINGTON — Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement on President Biden’s first 100 days in office:
WASHINGTON — Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the below statement following President Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress:
WASHINGTON – Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing for five judicial nominees, including Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit:
WASHINGTON — Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the below statement on the release of apportionment data collected in the 2020 Census:
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