LOS ANGELES – Today, President Joseph R. Biden announced a seventh slate of federal judicial nominees. Included in the nominations were three Latinos: Justice Gabriel P. Sanchez, nominated to the United States Court of Appeals...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – The U.S. Census Bureau today released data to be used for redistricting by states and local jurisdictions. As expected, the Latino population makes up a dramatic component of national population growth; Latinos in...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Two years after the deadliest hate-motivated attack on Latinos in the United States took place in El Paso Texas, MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) is launching a new initiative to combat...
Read MoreGood morning. My name is Thomas A. Saenz, and I am president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), which has, for 53 years now, worked to promote the civil rights of all Latinos...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s nomination of Myrna Pérez to the U.S....
Read MoreLOS ANGELES / NEW YORK – The White House this week announced its third slate of judicial nominations to serve as federal judges on district or appellate courts. The list of nominees includes just one Latino. Thomas A. Saenz,...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES/NEW YORK – The Biden Administration today announced its first set of judicial nominations — 11 individuals to serve as federal judges on district or appellate courts. The list of nominees, however, includes...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES –Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), issued the following statement calling for the immediate removal of Donald J. Trump from the United...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Please attribute the following statement on today’s extraordinary events surrounding the certification of the 2020 presidential election and the subsequent attack on our nation’s Capitol to Thomas A. Saenz,...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – The full U.S. Senate should reject the rushed process undertaken to confirm the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a letter sent today by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), the leading legal voice for Latinos in the U.S., today denounced the Senate Judiciary Committee decision to support the confirmation of Amy Coney...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – MALDEF today released a set of recommended votes for California’s ballot measures. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) has adopted positions on six of the California statewide...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – In 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to allow a vote to confirm a nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away in February of that year, arguing that the “American people should...
Read MoreGood morning. My name is Thomas A. Saenz, and I am president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), which has, for over 52 years now, worked to promote the civil rights of all...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Fifty years ago, thousands of peaceful protesters took to the streets of East Los Angeles to draw attention to the disproportionately high number of Mexican Americans drafted and killed in the Vietnam War and the...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement on the call for a national boycott of Goya Foods, Inc.: “Calls for a...
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