In The Root (a publication of the Washington Post), LDF Assistant Counsel Vincent Southerland responds to a statement released earlier this week by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor. In it, Justice Sotomayor lent her powerful ...
Ryan Haygood, LDF’s Director of the Political Participation Group, discusses oral argument in the Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, on Politics Nation with Rev. Al Sharpton. Mr. Haygood explains that the Supreme Court ...
Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s Director-Counsel, appears on PBS NewsHour with host Judy Woodruff, and explains that Section 5, the “preclearance” section and heart of the Voting Rights Act, remains vital today. Section 5 protects the rights of voters of color who live ...
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell interviewed Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill outside the Supreme Court today after oral argument in Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder. LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile argued on behalf of civil rights intervenor black voters ...
The Washington Post editorial, “The Voting Rights Act’s work isn’t finished,” lauds the Act as “one of this country’s foremost accomplishments.” The editorial also recognizes that the VRA’s objective — to “stamp out the varied and shifting strategies ...
Once again, race is front and center at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. And once again, the bull’s eye is the 1965 Voting Rights Act, widely viewed as the most effective and successful civil ...
Voting Rights Act Before The Supreme Court The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made it illegal for states to deny voting rights based on race or color. But Southern states enacted poll taxes and ...
