Monday, October 8, 2012 | news
NYU professor Kenji Yoshino and Debo Adegbile of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund join the Melissa Harris-Perry panel to talk about how the Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments this week for Fisher vs. University of Texas addressing affirmative action. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, […]
Monday, November 4, 2024 | news
WASHINGTON —The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to review the case of Robinson v. Callais, which could determine how congressional maps are drawn in Louisiana. The court will now consider whether Louisiana violated the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause when the state legislature redrew Louisiana’s congressional map in January 2024, after a federal court found […]
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 | news
The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it would take up a lawsuit challenging race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas, setting the stage for it to reconsider affirmative-action policies that it had ruled constitutional in 2003, before its composition significantly changed. The case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, No. 11-345, involves […]
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | case-update
Affirmative action is rarely discussed on the campaign trail, but it nevertheless is a matter of heated debate in Washington this year. The Supreme Court today will hear an hour of arguments in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which asks the court to rule on whether the university’s consideration of race […]
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | case-update
Statement by Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which defended the Voting Rights Act before the U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court’s decision today to strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act is an act of extraordinary judicial overreach. The Supreme Court ruling takes the most powerful tool […]
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | news
Court Rejects Congress’ Determination of Where the Voting Rights Act Should Apply, Leaving Voters Unprotected Statement by Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which defended the Voting Rights Act before the U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court’s decision today to strike down a key part of the Voting […]
Monday, June 22, 2009 | case-update
(New York, NY) – Today, the Supreme Court in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holderrejected a challenge to the constitutionality of Section 5, the core provision of the Voting Rights Act. In an opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court recognized that “[t]he historic accomplishments of the Voting Rights Act are […]
Thursday, April 22, 2021 | news
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jones v. Mississippi that the Eighth Amendment does not require a trial court to make a specific finding that an underaged youth sentenced to life without the possibility of parole is “permanently incorrigible,” or incapable of reform. The Court’s decision limits the scope of its prior decisions in […]
Monday, June 15, 2020 | news
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The decision, in favor of plaintiffs in Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda and Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, is a major win in the ongoing struggle for […]
Thursday, June 18, 2020 | news
Today, the United States Supreme Court found that the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was “arbitrary and capricious” and in violation of federal law. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in support of DACA recipients in October 2019. […]
