Damon Hewitt
Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection Anniversary: Federal Appeals Court Rules Trump Doesn’t Have Immunity From Lawsuit Brought By U.S. Capitol Police Officers
By Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube Screenshots Washington —The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law lawsuit, Smith v. ...
Civil Rights Leaders Meet With Biden Following State of Emergency Declaration For Democracy
Photos: Screenshot\Lawyer’s Committee\YouTube WASHINGTON, D.C. – Days after declaring a State of Emergency for democracy in the United States, the nation’s top civil rights ...
2020 Census Undercounted Black, Latino and Indigenous People Limiting Our Power
Photos: YouTube Washington, DC) – The Census Bureau announced Thursday that the 2020 census significantly undercounted the country’s Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities. Non-white ...
Texas Abortion Ban Poses Major Threat To Civil Rights
Photos: Twitter (Washington, D.C.) —The private “bounty hunter” enforcement scheme of Texas’ S.B. 8 abortion ban law, if left to stand by the U.S. ...
Biden Signals Openness To Ending Filibuster for Voting Rights Bill
Photo: YouTube (Washington, D.C.) — President Biden said on Thursday during a CNN town hall that he was open to ending the Senate filibuster ...
Black Farmers Face New Crisis Of Economic Displacement After Decades Of Instructional Racism
(Washington, D.C.) — After decades of the longstanding racial discrimination in administration of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) loan programs, Black farmers ...
Police Accountability Efforts Sabotaged As George Floyd Justice In Policing Act Negotiations Collapse
(Washington, D.C.) — Bipartisan negotiations for a compromise on police reform broke down Wednesday, officially ending talks on the George Floyd Justice in Policing ...
Republican Voter Suppression: Texas’ SB 1 Discriminates Against Blacks And Other Voters Of Color
Photos: Twitter (Austin, Texas) — The Texas State Legislature’s SB 1 legislation violates provisions of the Texas Constitution that protect the right to vote, ...
Jan. 6th: Capitol Police Suing Trump Under 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act
Photos: Twitter\YouTube (Washington, D.C.) — Then-President Trump, following his loss in the 2020 presidential election, worked with white supremacists, violent extremist groups, and campaign ...
The Fight Against Racial Republican Voter Suppression: “The Time To Act Is Now”
Photos: Twitter\YouTube (Washington, D.C.) — On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act (VRA), transformative legislation that ...
