News Clips
- February 3, 2012 CDP Launches New Initiative with the University of District Columbia School of Law Community Development Law Clinic CDP partners with University of District of Columbia School of Law Community Development Law Clinic to assist in Gulf Coast Recovery efforts.
- February 2, 2012 | Madison.com Op-Ed: LWV’s Andrea Kaminski: Citizens without ID caught in ‘Catch 22’ Although public perception is that everyone has a current, up-to-date government-issued photo ID, studies consistently show that as many as 11% of the voting age population nationwide lacks the types of ID that are necessary to vote in an ever-increasing number of states - many of whom are caught in a Catch-22 situation.
- February 1, 2012 | Kansas Reporter New Kansas voter ID regs hitting voters in nursing home Around 50 elderly residents of a nursing home will likely not be able to vote for the first time in years due to new voter identification requirements.
- January 31, 2012 Celebrating Black History Month
- January 31, 2012 Lawyers' Committee Files Amicus Brief Supporting Disparate Impact Claims Under the Fair Housing Act On January 30, 2012 the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, all eight of its affiliates and 16 other civil rights organizations filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Magner v. Gallagher.
- January 30, 2012 | The New York Times Albany Redistricting Plan Faulted as Unfair to Minorities Officials and citizens criticize New York’s proposed redistricting maps as unrepresentative of growing minority populations.
- January 30, 2012 | MTV Florida NAACP Members ‘Will Not Be Silenced’ By New Voter Laws Vanity Shields, a University of South Florida student and USF NAACP chapter president, expresses student concerns regarding changes to voting laws in Florida.
- January 30, 2012 Lawyers' Committee and Partners' Victory in Georgia NVRA Case Filed on Behalf of Georgia NAACP
- January 27, 2012 | New America Media Civil Rights Advocates Meet in L.A. to Discuss Voter Suppression Laws Civil rights advocates recently gathered in LA to promote working together for open and accessible elections this year.
- January 26, 2012 | New York Times Op-Ed: Voting and Racial History Last week, the Federal Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder. Section 5 requires that jurisdictions with histories of racial discrimination prove to the Department of Justice that new laws will not have a racially disproportionate impact before new voting laws go into effect.
