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Josh Civin quoted in USA Today

About 2,000 petitions await Supreme Court’s return Richard Wolf, USA TODAY 2:59 p.m. EDT September 23, 2013 The annual glut of appeals that accumulates throughout the summer must be whittled down by the justices’ law clerks. Only the strongest cases survive.   …”Significant attention is paid to the (pauper) cases, which may present very important […]

Josh Civin previews upcoming SCOTUS term

Another Blockbuster Season Ahead for the Supreme Court The case, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, involves a 2006 constitutional amendment approved by Michigan voters that bans affirmative action in the state. A closely-divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down the ban because, it held, affirmative action is a constitutional […]

Josh Civin previews SCOTUS’ October term with American Constitution Society

Josh Civin previews the Supreme Court’s upcoming term and highlights Schuette v. Cantrell. Read the details on C-SPAN.org

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Joint Statement of Seven Civil Rights Leaders: Vow to Oppose Threats to Racial Justice Under Trump

NEW YORK (November 14, 2016) —  Seven leading civil rights organizations today issued the following statement in response to the 2016 Presidential and Congressional election: “As civil rights leaders working for racial justice and economic opportunity, we join much of the nation in our apprehension about the incoming administration.  We cannot ignore that the campaign […]

Joint Statement of Seven Civil Rights Leaders: Vow to Oppose Threats to Racial Justice Under Trump

NEW YORK (November 14, 2016) —  Seven leading civil rights organizations today issued the following statement in response to the 2016 Presidential and Congressional election: “As civil rights leaders working for racial justice and economic opportunity, we join much of the nation in our apprehension about the incoming administration.  We cannot ignore that the campaign […]

Joint Statement of Civil Rights Groups on the Murder Trial of Former Officer Michael Slager

Today, the ACLU of South Carolina, the North Charleston Branch of the NAACP, the Community Resource Center, Charleston Area Justice Ministry, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. release the following statement:  Over 18 months after the nation watched the highly-publicized video of the police-shooting death of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man, […]

Joint Statement of Civil Rights and Clergy Leaders Concerning Mistrial of Former Officer Michael Slager

Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, Judge Clifton Newman declared a mistrial in the murder case of former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager who fatally shot Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man, during a routine traffic stop. The North Charleston Branch of the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the […]

Joint Statement of Black Women Leaders on Senator Mitch McConnell’s Attempts to Silence Words of Mrs. Coretta Scott King

Read the PDF of our statement here The undersigned are prominent African-American women leaders and we write to express our outrage at the actions taken last night by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican majority on the Senate floor. Last night, on the floor of the Senate, Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered a powerful […]

Joining Forces: Thurgood Marshall and John Lewis

Joining Forces: Thurgood Marshall and John Lewis By Janell Byrd-Chichester Former Director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute John Lewis’s death on July 17 marked a profound loss for the civil rights community. Congressman Lewis was the last living member of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders and, in describing the weight of his loss, many […]