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 ...
Disputing the Details for the NYPD Body Cameras Jin Hee Lee, deputy director of litigation of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and co-lead counsel in Davis, et al. v. City of New ...
The change in boundaries came at the urging of the New York-based NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the country’s first civil rights law firm. “We believe that the city’s current electoral plan may undermine ...
Buck may not stop here after all. Twenty years after Duane Buck was put on Death Row, partly due to racist testimony from a so-called “expert witness”, a Texas court vacates his death sentence.
Judge strikes down Texas voter ID law for a second time In 2012, federal judges ruled that a Texas voter ID law violated the Voting Rights Act, but Republican lawmakers fought repeatedly to keep the ...
“What Attorney General Sessions is attempting to do is to take us back to a time to when policing was a failure, when the practices failed,” Monique Dixon, a lead attorney for the NAACP Legal ...
Jeff Sessions Pushes New War on Drugs While Killing Obama-Era Police Reform Measures “We’re Coming for You”: Florida Sheriff Records Anti-Drug Message Surrounded by Masked SWAT Team Head of the NAACP LDF on ...
