Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has revealed that he is willing to trash longstanding Senate tradition and undermine his Senate colleagues to hand control of the federal courts over to President Donald Trump. Grassley said that ...
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill and LDF Fellow Richard Rothstein join NPR/WAMU 88.5’s program 1A on an episode entitled “The Long History and Lasting Legacy of Housing Segregation.” Other guests included: Jim Carr, Coleman ...
The Environmental Protection Agency has abruptly closed a longstanding civil rights complaint. In December 2003, the Ashurst Bar/Smith community in Tallassee, Alabama, filed a complaint against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, which receives federal funds from ...
On average, the number of school-aged children in seceding districts is about 4,000 compared to the roughly 32,000 school-aged children that comprise the districts from which they secede, according to the EdBuild analysis. “In most ...
Justice delayed is justice denied. For too long, that’s been the case in Harris County, where people languish behind bars for weeks and months awaiting trial for minor, nonviolent misdemeanors because they cannot afford bail. ...
The question of whether the rights of black voters are violated by the practice of at-large voting for judges in Terrebonne Parish is now fully in the hands of a federal judge, whose verdict is ...
In places with black minorities, at-large voting is an especially effective way to circumvent the VRA’s requirements that electoral districts maintain some sort of geographic and demographic coherence. That’s because the very nature of Jim ...
