“If you look at the 23rd Judicial District or the 16th Judicial District, they all have districts like the one we’re trying to achieve, which is a district where black voters are the majority,” said ...
LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson joins The FourFiftyOne, a podcast for the resistance, to discuss LDF’s work on voting rights. Listen to the full segment here.
Janai Nelson, along with Marc Morial of the National Urban League, joins MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports to weigh in on a meeting with civil rights leaders and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as well as the ...
Later this month, the fight for genuine diversity and for equal electoral voting opportunity will continue when civil rights advocates go to trial against the governor and attorney general of Louisiana in federal court in ...
A federal lawsuit challenging Alabama’s requirement that voters present photo identification before they can cast a ballot was filed in 2015 on behalf of the Alabama NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries. The lawsuit alleges the ...
Will son of Selma, Jeff Sessions, protect voting rights? Today marks the 52nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday, and the Selma march for voting rights. MSNBC’s Trymaine Lee and Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense ...
On February 27, the Department of Justice announced an abrupt about-face on voting rights, essentially walking away from a lawsuit against a harsh voter ID law in Texas. Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate’s Amicus podcast, discusses the ...
