Press Releases
Jun 26, 2025
Supreme Court Affirms First Step Act Sentencing Reductions
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled today that the sentencing reductions under the First Step Act of 2018 apply to people whose pre-Act sentences are vacated and who are subject...
Issue Areas:
Criminal Law Reform
Jun 26, 2025
ICE Can’t be Allowed to Corrupt Virginia’s Judicial SystemÂ
RICHMOND, Va. – In response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions at the Chesterfield County Courthouse today, ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµof Virginia Executive Director Mary Bauer re...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Jun 24, 2025
Partisan Gerrymandering Case Reaches South Carolina Supreme Court
COLUMBIA – Nonpartisan civil rights organizations argued before the South Carolina Supreme Court today that the state constitution forbids partisan gerrymandering, or the rigging...
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Jun 24, 2025
As Communities Mobilize Against Increasing ICE Abuses, Members of Congress Must Fulfill Their Responsibility to Conduct Oversight of Immigration Detention
Washington, DC — The ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµ, Detention Watch Network, and the National Immigrant Justice Center today released a new guide for members of Congress to cond...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Jun 24, 2025
ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµJoins 100+ Abortion Storytellers on Capitol Hill in Advocating for Reproductive FreedomÂ
The education day was the largest storyteller convening for abortion rights to the Hill since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three years agoÂ
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Jun 24, 2025
New ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµReport Finds Racial and Religious Discrimination in Death Penalty Jury Selection
Death qualification prevents any person from serving on a capital jury if they do not believe in the death penalty and unjustly skews capital juries
Issue Areas:
Capital Punishment
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