Friday, May 30, 2014 | news
Leah Aden, Assistant Counsel of the Political Participation Group, writes for American Constitution Society’s blog about the historic district-based voting that recently took place in Fayette County, Georgia for the first time in the county’s 191-year history. Days after commemorating Brown, Black voters in Fayette County took to the polls during a primary election to elect their […]
Friday, April 10, 2015 | news
Opinion: Fayette at-large voting discriminates “Not surprisingly, though black voters in 1960 comprised 25 percent of Fayette’s population according to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, at-large voting in the county — a structural wall of exclusion — prevented black voters from ever electing a candidate of choice to the school board or county commission. […]
Monday, March 7, 2016 | news
Did you know that approximately one-and-a-half million Floridians with felony convictions can not vote. Why Is It Still So Hard for Ex-Cons to Vote in Florida? “Florida is one of the states with the harshest felon disenfranchisement laws,” says Leah Aden, assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “Absent federal legislation or courts striking down […]
Sunday, March 8, 2015 | news
50 Years After Selma, African Americans In Alabama Say: ‘Hell No, We’re Not Going Back’ ..Leah Aden with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which represented the Shelby County plaintiffs, told ThinkProgress she and other civil rights lawyers are currently scrambling to take over the monitoring the federal government once provided. She has Google alerts set up for […]
Thursday, April 9, 2015 | news
In voting rights win, bill to cut Georgia early voting is dead The effort’s apparent demise came after feverish organizing by a broad coalition of voting rights, civil rights, good government, and Democratic groups. “Many thanks to you for your efforts, using your voice and that of your networks to bring attention to the issue […]
Friday, July 17, 2015 | news
Fayette Residents Continue Fight Against At-Large Voting “The decision by Fayette County is really is a step backwards and is an affront to progress that has been made in Fayette County,” said Leah Aden, assistant counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and an attorney for the residents. Read the full article here.
Monday, February 10, 2014 | news
Leah Aden writes a blog post for the American Constitution Society in which she describes, in detail, LDF’s challenge to Terrebonne Parish’s discriminatory at-large system of voting. Aden explains that without this litigation, plaintiffs and other Black voters in Terrebonne wouldn’t have recourse to change their treatment as second-class citizens. Expanding Democracy in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana by […]
Friday, October 28, 2016 | news
Voting Suppression is the Real Election Scandal “This is an unfortunate part of our history,” Leah Aden, a senior counsel with the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, told The Intercept. “People are acutely aware of the changing demographics in this country and while we should all be working towards more people participating, there’s always been this […]
Thursday, January 26, 2017 | news
“This voter fraud lie has been used to disenfranchise black voters for the last 150 years,” Leah Aden, a senior counsel with the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, told The Intercept, citing a renewed crackdown on voting rights following historic black voter turnout in 2008 and 2012, as well as the 2010 census revealing the country’s […]
Friday, September 16, 2016 | news
Polling Places Become Battleground In U.S. Voting Rights Fight While polling place cutbacks are on the rise across the country, including in some Democratic-run areas, the South’s history of racial discrimination has made the region a focus of concern for voting rights advocates. Activists see the voting place reductions as another front in the fight […]
