Former LDF intern edits new Columbia Journal of Race and Law

The Columbia Journal of Race and Law, whose editor-in-chief is Sheila Adams (Columbia Law, ’11), made its official debut today.  Sheila is a current Warren Scholarship recipient and a former Summer LDF Law Intern.    In connection ...

TV Series Tries to Revive Civil Rights Cold Cases

Better known for crime fare like “I (Almost) Got Away With It” and “Deadly Women,” Investigation Discovery is using Black History Month to turn the spotlight on three unsolved, racially motivated killings of the 1960s. ...

Good Counsel: How Thurgood Marshall Inspired Me

February is Black History Month and Tell Me More observes the month with a series of short vignettes. In this installment, regular contributor Arsalan Iftikhar shares his black history hero. I’m Arsalan Iftikhar, a civil ...

Obama Nominates Three to D.C. Superior Court

President Obama has nominated three Washington lawyers to serve as judges for the District of Columbia Superior Court. If confirmed, Jennifer Di Toro, Donna Murphy and Yvonne Williams would fill the vacancies created by the ...

Voting Rights Act vs. the Courts

With all the talk over the individual mandate and health-care reform, oral argument in Shelby County v. Holder yesterday in D.C. federal court got little attention. The Alabama county of Shelby is challenging the constitutionality ...

Washington Post: Court hears challenge to Voting Rights Act

Conservative legal activists are set to renew their campaign to overturn the nation’s landmark Voting Rights Act, arguing before a federal district judge in Washington on Wednesday that states and local jurisdictions should no longer ...

Shelby County voting rights case debated in Washington courtroom

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Shelby County asked a federal judge in Washington today to declare two key parts of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional because Congress relied on old voting statistics when it extended the ...

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