On August 30, a federal three-judge panel in Washington, DC denied Texas’s ability to implement its proposed photo voter ID law, under the core provision of the Voting Rights Act that LDF successfully defended in ...
Ryan Haygood, on Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer, hails judges’ ruling against Florida’s limit on early in-person voting and details how the limit would have disproportionately affected minority voting. See the interview.
The picture of who will be the Louisiana Supreme Court’s next chief justice may be muddy, but one aspect is perfectly clear: When it comes to the public portion of the fight, Justice Bernette Johnson is winning. Although ...
(Reuters) – A judge in the election battleground state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday rejected an effort to block the state’s voter identification law, which civil rights groups argued discriminates against minority voters. Pennsylvania, a major ...
On Oct. 10, the justices will hear arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, in which a rejected white applicant to the school challenges the admissions practices, which include race as a factor. ...
Updated Aug. 14, 1 p.m.: The chorus calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the University of Texas at Austin’s current policy allowing race to be a factor in admissions decisions has been joined by ...
For Cris Rubio, there wasn’t much suspense about what came after he graduated high school in 2003. Rubio had been second in his class for much of his four years — he eventually finished fourth ...
