Op-ed co-authored by Ben Jealous and Ryan Haygood portend challenges to voting access in 2016…. For far too many Americans, voting became more difficult or, in some cases, impossible in 2014. In Texas, Imani Clark, a ...
Watch Sherrilyn Ifill discuss the Texas Voter ID Law, the Supreme Court and voter suppression with Bill Moyers on Moyers and company: The Fight — and the Right — to Vote from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo. ...
Watch Natasha Korgaonkar discuss the Supreme Court’s disappointing decision to allow an intentionally discriminatory Voter ID law to stay in place for the upcoming election. The good news is that the substance of our district ...
*Update Oct 16, 2014 @ 12:00 PM: Watch video recording of debate on C-SPAN. Sherrilyn Ifill and Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation will discuss the likely impact of recent court rulings, new state election laws ...
Court rulings in Texas and Wisconsin are giving opponents of strict voter ID laws a chance to celebrate. Joy Reid looks at the impact of recent voter ID decisions around the country with Ryan P. ...
In an op-ed in Alabama.com, Leslie Proll, the director of LDF’s Washington D.C. offices urges Alabama to fill vanancies on the state’s federal bench noting that the state has never had a federal appellate judge ...
LDF’s Janai Nelson, along with former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal and other legal scholars previewed the 2014-2015 Supreme Court term. Among the cases they discussed were racial gerrymandering of congressional districts (also discussed in The ...
