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WASHINGTON – After the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Trump administration’s unlawful executive memorandum in Trump v. New York as premature, Beth Lynk, director of the Census Counts Campaign at The Leadership Education Fund, issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Gary D. Bass, executive director of the Bauman Foundation and chair of a funder collaborative to promote a fair and accurate census, describe the Trump administration’s unprecedented attacks on the independence and accuracy of the decennial census in a two-part series in Ms. Magazine.
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, along with 80 groups, today issued the following statement on the need for President-elect Joe Biden to name an attorney general of the United States and other senior leadership of the U.S. Department of Justice who have strong records with regard to civil rights enforcement and justice reform:
WASHINGTON – Lena Zwarensteyn, fair courts campaign director at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the Senate’s vote to advance the nomination of Thomas Kirsch to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit:
WASHINGTON – Lena Zwarensteyn, Fair Courts campaign director at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the Senate’s confirmation of Stephen Schwartz to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims: