Oct 18, 2019 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
SAN ANTONIO, TX – MALDEF attorneys sent a letter to a Texas school district Friday warning that it was in violation of the U.S. Constitution for treating parents with foreign government-issued identification differently than parents with Texas-issued IDs. In the...
Oct 18, 2019 | News Releases, PP Voting Rights, Public Policy, Voting Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives of leading civil rights organizations testified in two U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearings yesterday about the need to expand and strengthen the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA) and to address other elections-related...
Oct 8, 2019 | News Releases, Voting Rights
McALLEN, TX – A federal judge in Texas today struck down key portions of Starr County's regulations that limited political speech. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Randy Crane concluded that certain Starr County rules restricting electioneering on...
Oct 3, 2019 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Education
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) is pleased to announce the recipients in its 2018-19 Law School Scholarship Program. Since MALDEF’s founding, the civil rights organization has awarded scholarships to law students who plan to...
Oct 2, 2019 | Census, News Releases, Voting Rights
BIRMINGHAM, AL – Latino voters are asking a federal judge in Alabama to declare that Congressional apportionment must be determined by the total population residing in the United States, as actually enumerated in the upcoming 2020 Census, according to a cross-claim...
