Press Room

Debo Adegbile, Associate Director of Litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc.
Press Contact: Kay Shaw, 212-965-2271// naacpldf.org
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Angela Arboleda, Associate Director, Criminal Justice Policy for the National Council of La Raza
Press Contact: Lisa Navarette, 202-785-1670// nclr.org
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Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Press Contact: Lauren McSwain-Starrett, 202-833-9771 // lawyerscommittee.org and votingrightsact.org
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Khelan Bhatia, Senior Legislative Representative for the AARP
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Caroline Frederickson, Director, ACLU
Press Contact: media@dcaclu.org, 202-675-2304 // aclu.org

Commending the House's vote to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act
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On the importance of prompt reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act with key provisions intact
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Richard A. Guest, Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund
Press Contact: Richard Guest, 202-785-4166// maldef.org
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Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Press Contact: Karen DeWitt, 202-466-3651 // civilrights.org
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Karen Narasaki, President and Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center
Press Contact: Lauren McSwain-Starrett, 202-833-9771 // advancingequality.org
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Estuardo Rodriguez of MALDEF
Press Contact: Estuardo Rodriguez, 202-463-4806 // maldef.org
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Hilary Shelton, Washington Bureau Director of the NAACP
Press Contact: John White, 410-580-5125 // naacp.org
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Nancy Zirkin, Deputy Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Director of Public Policy
Press Contact: Karen DeWitt, 202-466-3651 // civilrights.org

On the importance of renewing the Voting Rights Act
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Why the Senate needs to act
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