Echoes of Brown in School Discipline

Leticia Smith-Evans, Interim Director of the Education Practice Group, writes for EdWeek on the recent legal guidance issued by the DOJ and DOE on school discipline. Responding to the questions of the necessity and projected efficacy ...

Johnathan Smith and Georgetown Honor 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act

Johnathan Smith delivered a keynote address at a church service held at St. William’s Chapel to honor Black History Month and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The event was sponsored ...

Ria Tabacco Mar Weighs in on Criminal Background Checks Policy

This week, Ria Tabacco Mar testified at a public hearing before the DC Council’s Committee on Economic Development, urging the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to adopt fairer hiring practices. WMATA unfairly uses criminal background ...

Overcoming White Supremacy in Louisiana

Brentin Mock writes for Demos about our case in Terrebonne Parish challenging the discriminatory at-large system of voting. He highlights the state’s long history of voter discrimination and argues that “vestiges of that Louisiana-styled white ...

Leah Aden Pens Blog for American Constitution Society on Terrebonne Voting Case

Leah Aden writes a blog post for the American Constitution Society in which she describes, in detail, LDF’s challenge to Terrebonne Parish’s discriminatory at-large system of voting. Aden explains that without this litigation, plaintiffs and other Black ...

President Obama Criticized For Nominating Mostly Corporate Lawyers to Judicial Posts

In a conversation with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Alliance for Justice president Nan Aron, and retired federal judge Nancy Gertner about professional diversity on federal courts, Sherrilyn Ifill highlighted the importance of racial diversity in particular. In ...

Ruling Could Be Near on Fisher v. Texas

Josh Civin, Counsel to the Director of Litigation, recently presented oral argument to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Fisher vs. University of Texas on remand. In this article, he talks about barriers to ...

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