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Civil Rights and Social Justice

July 26, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement following President Trump's decision to bar transgender people from serving in the United States Military.


July 18, 2017

Last spring, Dena Haritos Tsamitis left a work meeting to discover she was unable to get a signal on her cellphone. Even after rebooting the device, she couldn't get service, leaving her unable to contact her college student daughter, who usually communicated with her throughout the day.


July 12, 2017

As many as 14 million U.S.-based Verizon customers have had their data exposed by a partner of the telecommunications giant, which misconfigured a repository storing the personal information it had access to.


July 12, 2017

Names and phone numbers of millions of Verizon customers were made available on a publicly accessible storage area owned by one of the company's vendors, according an enterprise security software company that discovered the exposed data.


May 16, 2017

Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill expressed outrage and concern Tuesday night after a New York Times report suggested the president had asked former FBI director James Comey to shut down an investigation into ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn.


May 1, 2017

Long before his depiction in Broadway's most popular musical, Alexander Hamilton was a noted defender of the free press, advocating for journalists' right to tell the truth without facing legal retribution from the nation's most powerful men.