The United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument tomorrow in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, one of the most important voting rights cases of our generation. In the case, Shelby County seeks to tear out the ...
The Supreme Court almost never says why it refuses to take a case. On Monday, however, when the court denied a petition from the man convicted in Calhoun v. United States, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined ...
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a sharp rebuke to Texas federal prosecutors for racially charged remarks made during the trial of Bongani Charles Calhoun, an African-American man accused of participating in a ...
See the interview On February 22, 2013, Ryan Haygood, Director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, discussed Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, on Up w/ Chris Hayes on MSNBC. Shelby County, Alabama currently is challenging the ...
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — The murders of three young civil rights workers bent on registering black voters during 1964’s “Freedom Summer” still haunts this tiny town in central Mississippi. Jewel Rush McDonald shudders at the thought ...
On Thursday, February 21, 2013, Ryan Haygood, Director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, appeared on “Hardball with Chris Matthews”, along with Julie Fernandes, former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of ...
LDF’s complaint regarding a Texas school district’s policy of issuing criminal misdemeanor tickets to students was featured in Education Week. The article includes a quote from LDF attorney Rachel Kleinman, Assistant Counsel of the Education ...
