Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the ACLU Voting Rights Practice, American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP, and Power Coalition for Equity and Justice submitted written testimony ...
Today, the United States Supreme Court permitted Texas abortion care providers the ability to challenge the state’s abortion law (S.B. 8) in federal court, but only on the narrowest grounds against state licensing officials. In ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the Fayette County, Georgia Board of Commissioners (BOC) concerning the redistricting process and the BOC’s obligation to comply with Section 2 ...
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and its Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) released new guidance establishing that “Special Purpose Credit Programs” (SPCPs) that are otherwise generally lawful ...
Today, LDF, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Vermilion NAACP Branch sent a letter to the Abbeville, Louisiana City Council regarding compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and maps currently ...
Today, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against the State of Texas, alleging that new congressional and state-level legislative districts passed by the Texas Legislature engaged in unlawful discrimination. “In enacting its ...
Yesterday, during oral argument at the Supreme Court for the Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization case, Mississippi’s Solicitor General and several Justices invoked Brown v. Board of Education, which overruled Plessy v. Ferguson and brought ...
