by Press | Aug 23, 2025 | Press Releases
Robert Weiner, the voting rights project director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which represents the Texas NAACP in the ongoing lawsuit against Texas for racial gerrymandering, issued the following statement regarding the new...
by Press | Aug 14, 2025 | Press Releases
Federal Judge Rejects Broad Bid to Toss VACIR Voting Rights Case Plaintiffs’ core claims proceed and the case moves to discovery. Alexandria, VA— In a major win for voting rights and the rule of law, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles of the U.S. District Court...
by Press | Oct 23, 2024 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected an attempt to force an emergency appeal of a court ruling that struck down several State Election Board rules, including a rule that would have required the hand counting of ballots in the upcoming November...
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 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...
