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Texas District Court Permanently Strikes Down Intentionally Discriminatory Photo ID Law

Texas District Court Permanently Strikes Down Intentionally Discriminatory Photo ID Law, Determines that Weakened “New” Voter ID Law Is No Substitute  The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds the U.S. District Court in Corpus Christi, Texas, for definitively blocking Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14 (SB 14), which was passed […]

Texas Denied Implementation of Proposed Photo Voter ID Law

On August 30, a federal three-judge panel in Washington, DC denied Texas’s ability to implement its proposed photo voter ID law, under the core provision of the Voting Rights Act that LDF successfully defended in the Supreme Court in 2009.    LDF, on behalf of its clients the Texas League of Young Voters Educational Fund […]

Texas Denied Implementation of Proposed Photo Voter ID Law

On August 30, a federal three-judge panel in Washington, DC denied Texas’s ability to implement its proposed photo voter ID law, under the core provision of the Voting Rights Act that LDF successfully defended in the Supreme Court in 2009.   

Texas Democratic Party v. Texas Officials

On May 21, 2020 the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an emergency amicus brief on behalf of Texas voters in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The brief opposes a stay sought by Texas officials that would block a recent preliminary injunction allowing Texans to vote by mail in order to minimize their […]

Texas Court Order Helps Combat Misinformation Given to Voters

Today, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued a key voting rights ruling, after a hearing, regarding the voting procedures that the Court ordered on August 10 as interim relief and that Texas must use in the upcoming November election. Today’s order makes clear that the alternative relief that the court […]

Texas Court Fails to Recognize Waller County’s Denial of Black Students and Voters’ Access to Equitable Early Voting

Recently, the Southern District Court of Texas ruled against Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) students, recent graduates, and a PVAMU student and alumni organization, who argued that Waller County violated the U.S. Constitution and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Students at this historically Black university located in the City of Prairie View alleged […]

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Texas 2018 Prepared to Vote

Testimony of Kristen Johnson LDF/Fried Frank Fellow Before the New York City Council Committee on For-Hire Vehicles

  By: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Source: NAACP LDF   LDF Fried Frank Fellow Kristen Johnson’a testimony before the New York City Council Committee on For-Hire Vehicles in support of Introduction 1079. Read full Kirsten Johnson’s testimony here.

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