Jun 24, 2019 | Census, News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – A federal court in Maryland today issued its opinion explaining its previously-issued response to a request by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) to reconsider whether the Trump administration conspired with others to...
Jun 22, 2019 | News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF sent a letter to the Board of Directors of the Camarillo Health Care District (HCD) today warning that the district’s at-large system of electing its Board of Directors violates the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 (CVRA). In the letter, sent...
Jun 20, 2019 | Census, News Releases, Voting Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C. – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the statements below in response to today’s ruling by U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel granting a plaintiffs’ motion to reconsider whether the Trump administration conspired with...
Jun 18, 2019 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement today, marking the seventh anniversary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an initiative that...
Jun 15, 2019 | Census, News Releases, Voting Rights
GREENBELT, Md – Newly discovered evidence contradicts the Trump administration’s claims that it added a citizenship question to the 2020 Census simply to enforce the federal Voting Rights Act, and confirms that the purpose was to deprive Latinos of constitutionally...
