(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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Detroit’s bankruptcy judge is being asked to extend a moratorium on water shut-offs scheduled to resume Tuesday. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund are consulting on a motion filed Sunday asking U.S. ...
