Nov 18, 2014 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C. – LGBT and civil rights organizations strongly urge President Obama not to exclude long-resident LGBT individuals from the forthcoming program of administrative relief to protect from deportation some of the nation's population. Last week, media...
Nov 12, 2014 | News Releases, Voting Rights
HOUSTON, TX – Today, MALDEF filed suit against the City of Pasadena, Texas, challenging the city's new voting system, which was adopted last November in a close election. The measure eliminated two of Pasadena’s eight single-member voting districts and replaced...
Nov 10, 2014 | News Releases
AUSTIN, TX – Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas dismissed Evenwel v. Perry, a lawsuit which attempted to force the Texas Legislature to redraw its Senate District boundaries based on the voting electorate rather than total...
Nov 7, 2014 | News Releases, Voting Rights
DENVER, CO – Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed a decision by the federal district court in Kansas, which ordered the federal government to add onerous voter registration requirements to the federal voter registration form....
Nov 5, 2014 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
WASHINGTON, DC – MALDEF and The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a coalition of 39 of the nation's preeminent Latino organizations, calls on President Barack Obama not to delay in fulfilling his promise to grant affirmative relief from deportation to...
