Media Highlights in the Detroit Water Shutoff Crisis

Lauren McCauley, Detroiters Vow Resistance After Judge Rules There is No Human Right to Water, Common Dreams (Sep 30, 2014) James Turnage, No Water for You, Public State (Sep 30, 2014) Matt Helms and Joe ...

LDF Challenges Discriminatory Texas Photo ID Law in Trial Next Week

(New York)–Next week, beginning on Tuesday, September 2nd, LDF’s political participation team will start trial in Corpus Christi, Texas challenging the state’s discriminatory voter ID law (SB 14). In 2013, LDF intervened in this lawsuit, ...

Media Highlights in the Texas Voter Photo ID Case

Zachary Roth, Supreme Court approves Texas voter ID law, MSNBC (Oct 18, 2014) Greg Stohr, Texas Voter-ID Law Allowed by U.S. Supreme Court, Bloomberg (Oct 18, 2014) J. Christian Adams, One Last Hurrah for Texas ...

Big Civil Rights Court Day — TX Photo ID Trial Opens and Detroit Water Hearings Start

LDF is fighting to stop water shutoffs in Detroit as we also challenge Texas’ discriminatory photo ID law.  Today, a two-week trial begins in United States v. Texas, a federal challenge to Texas’s discriminatory photo ...

LDF’s George Writes in St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Michael Brown and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Michael Brown was beating the odds. He made it through the minefield that can be the public education system in America; he graduated from Normandy High; he had no criminal record; and he was poised ...

LDF to Challenge Discriminatory Photo ID Law in Texas Federal Court

Texas’s Photo ID One of the Most Discriminatory in the Country (Corpus Christi, TX)—Today, a two-week trial begins in United States v. Texas, a federal challenge to Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14.  ...

LDF Remembers George Barrett

LDF mourns the passing of George Barrett, our cherished cooperating attorney in Nashville, Tennessee.  At age 86, George was still practicing law at his firm, Barrett, Johnston, Martin & Garrison, at the time of his ...

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