Feb 16, 2011 | News Releases, Voting Rights
DALLAS, TX – Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas rejected an apportionment challenge that sought to force the City of Irving, Texas to discriminate against Latino voters in drawing the map for city council districts. MALDEF represents...
Feb 11, 2011 | News Releases, Voting Rights
PHOENIX, AZ – Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona announced today that the state of Arizona will introduce several counterclaims against the U.S. government in the ongoing litigation over SB 1070, Arizona's racial profiling law. The following can be attributed to a...
Jan 29, 2011 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
LOS ANGELES, CA – Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel of MALDEF, issued the statement below in response to a radical proposal by Republican Sens. David Vitter (La.) and Rand Paul (Ky.) that flies in the face of the Fourteenth Amendment’s grant of...
Jan 4, 2011 | News Releases
David G. Hinojosa will become Southwest Regional Counsel LOS ANGELES, CA – This week, Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel, announced important developments in the leadership of the MALDEF national litigation team. Longtime senior MALDEF attorney Nina...
Dec 28, 2010 | News Releases, Voting Rights
Focus Should Not Be on Partisanship, But People LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, MALDEF, along with other civil rights and civic engagement organizations, issued the following statement regarding the recently released reapportionment data: The organizations listed below...
