Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced that Karla McKanders has been appointed as the new director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute, the multidisciplinary research and advocacy center within LDF that was launched in 2015. ...
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the anti-democratic independent state legislature (ISL) theory in Moore v. Harper. ISL theory in its most extreme interpretation gives state legislatures full control of elections and voting laws, with ...
Today, LDF and Allen v. Milligan plaintiffs submitted a remedial redistricting plan following the Supreme Court’s decision in Milligan. In affirming the three-judge district court’s preliminary injunction against HB1, the Supreme Court upheld the district court’s findings that ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today lifted a temporary halt on a federal lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s discriminatory congressional map. The action sends the case, Robinson v. Ardoin, down to the Fifth Circuit Court of ...
Today marks 10 years since the Supreme Court’s decision to significantly weaken essential protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) in Shelby County v. Holder. In a decision Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likened ...
Today, Dekalb County District Attorney Shelby Boston announced that her office is withdrawing from all cases involving protestors who were recently arrested for opposing the Atlanta Training Center widely known as Cop City. These cases ...
Yesterday, Michigan legislators introduced Senate Bills 401, 402, 403, and 404 (“Michigan Voting Rights Act” or “MIVRA”), a comprehensive state voting rights act that will expand access and strengthen protections against voting discrimination for communities ...
