by Press | Jul 3, 2024 | Press Releases
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal court has ordered Mississippi to redraw its 2022 state legislative maps in several areas after concluding those maps unlawfully dilute the voting strength of Black Mississippians. Civil rights advocates challenged the maps and showed at...
by Press | Dec 20, 2022 | Press Releases
JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights advocates today challenged Mississippi’s 2022 state legislative district maps for unlawfully diluting the voting strength of Black Mississippians. Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of...
by Press | Feb 10, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, DC) — The Board of Commissioners of San Juan County, New Mexico adopted a redistricting plan that denies San Juan County’s Navajo Nation citizens and other Indigenous voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and to elect...
by Press | Jan 7, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, DC) – The civil rights community mourns the loss of Professor Lani Guinier, a voting rights champion, whose litigation, policy analysis, and scholarship on race, elections, and democracy inspired generations of advocates. The first woman of color to be...
by Press | Dec 30, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Illinois lawmakers’ actions breaking apart the cohesive Black community in the East St. Louis area in order to advance their partisan political interests was upheld on Thursday, with a panel of three federal judges ruling that plaintiffs...
