Oct 24, 2019 | MALDEF in History
Proposition 187: The Granddaddy of Anti-Immigrant Measures State laws attempting to regulate immigration became all the rage in several states across the last decade, but the grandfather of them all was California’s Proposition 187. Voters passed the measure in 1994...
Jul 23, 2019 | MALDEF in History
Gloria Molina was sworn in on March 3, 1991, as Los Angeles County Supervisor. MALDEF Lawsuit Created First Latino-Majority Seat on Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors For years, the white men who always managed to win election to the Los Angeles County Board of...
Mar 26, 2019 | MALDEF in History
LUNA V. COUNTY OF KERN: MALDEF AND LATINO VOTERS ACHIEVE LANDMARK VICTORY California’s Kern County has used a rigged political system to exploit Latinos for decades. That corrupt system did not skip a beat in 2011 when county supervisors adopted a discriminatory...
Jan 22, 2019 | Census, News Releases, Voting Rights
Greenbelt, MD – A federal trial begins today in a lawsuit alleging that Trump administration officials and others intentionally conspired to deprive racial minorities of their constitutional rights by adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The lawsuit,...
Jan 22, 2019 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
TUCSON, AZ – A federal court of appeals should dismiss a request by Tucson education officials to end a decades-long desegregation case because the district failed to make that request in the lower court, according to a motion filed today by Latino students. The court...
