Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Deception & Misdirection
Active Federal Meddling in Elections: “Bidenbucks”
Some of the most notorious leftwing interest groups partnered with federal agencies for what amounted to a taxpayer-sponsored get-out-the-vote campaign under President Biden’s election-meddling executive order. The Biden-Harris administration kept…
by Fred Lucas on October 22, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
Active Federal Meddling in Elections: “Listening Session”
While a who’s who of the far Left attended the July 2021 listening session, only a few gave presentations. Representatives from the White House, Leadership Conference for Civil and Human…
by Fred Lucas on October 22, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
Active Federal Meddling in Elections: Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that it aligned with the League of Women Voters, the ACLU, the Campaign Legal Center, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee, Disability Rights DC, and the…
by Fred Lucas on October 22, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
Active Federal Meddling in Elections: Federal Employees
While the Biden administration didn’t give federal employees a whole day off to vote, as Fair Fight Action called for, the Office of Personnel Management adopted a policy to give…
by Fred Lucas on October 22, 2024

Organization Trends
Biden and Lefty Nonprofits Helped Overturn Roe
The reversal of Roe v. Wade has caused some on the left to turn against one of their heroes. They believe the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg irresponsibly…
by Ken Braun on June 29, 2022

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Campaign for Socialized Housing
For the increasing unaffordability of housing in much of America, observers offer a variety of explanations and remedies. Numerous factors are at play. The housing market is, after all, a…
by Robert Stilson on August 26, 2021

Organization Trends
Nonprofits in the Biden Administration: Special Interest and Advocacy Groups
Many of those serving in the Biden administration have previously worked for left-leaning special interest and advocacy groups. The influence of these organizations, which strive to shape public policy along…
by Robert Stilson on June 28, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Ford Foundation
(PDF here) For over half a century, the Ford Foundation has quietly worked to turn the nation’s law schools into agents of Sixties-style “social change.”  Other donors like Carnegie,…
by Walter Olson on July 1, 2013

Organization Trends
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights (but Not Equal Rights) Under Law
(PDF here) Formed in the midst of the nation’s struggle to guarantee equal rights to all Americans, regardless of race, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under…
by Kevin Mooney on February 1, 2013