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Mar 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
#BREAKING: We filed an amicus brief in support of anti-discrimination protections for #transgender individuals. People of all gender identities and expressions deserve equal access to the health care services they need.
Learn more about Lange v. Houston County ⬇️
The plaintiff, a Houston County sheriff’s deputy, filed a lawsuit against her employer in 2019 after discovering that her health insurance plan excluded coverage for medically-necessary transgender-related healthcare services.
May 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Happening NOW! Our President & Executive Director will be testifying before the Senate Rules Committee about the administration of upcoming elections. Our votes matter, our voices deserve to be heard.
Watch Here: rules.senate.gov/hearings/admin…
"What we learned in 2020 is that democracy works when you let it. We saw incredible energy and participation across party lines. Yet legislators have now introduced and enacted a wave of restrictive voting bills." -@DamonTHewitt
Aug 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨BREAKING: We're suing Donald Trump, Roger Stone, the Proud Boys & more for their role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. That was an attack on democracy. It was a blatant attempt to stifle the votes & voices of millions of Americans, particularly Black voters. bit.ly/3jgzC4W
"If they didn't do what they did that day – if they didn't have the courage to stand up – I don't know that we'd be living in a democracy today."
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"It will take a postal service that can operate effectively and efficiently for American's voices to be heard. And that's not what we're seeing from this post master general." #SaveTheUSPS#Election2020#COVID19
On Friday night in Atlanta, GA, attorneys from our Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law concluded two days of arguments in Curling v. Raffensperger in Federal District Court. @LawyersComm
The @LawyersComm represents a group of plaintiffs fighting for the right of Georgia voters to have fair and secure elections.
Mar 27, 2019 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
BREAKING: @facebook just announced a new policy banning content that promotes white nationalism and white separatism as impermissible hate speech, following nine months of advocacy from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
.@facebook's new policy declares white nationalism and white separatism to be equivalent to white supremacy, and prohibits any praise, support or representation of these hateful ideologies.