LOS 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 MoreOn Nov. 3, 2020 voters around the nation face a critical presidential election. In addition to electing the next president, there are federal, state, and local races on the ballot this November. Moreover, in many states and...
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 MoreThe presidential election on November 3, 2020 is perhaps the most consequential in memory, with critical decisions on candidates for federal, state, and local office who will make key decisions for our nation in the next several...
Read MoreOn April 23, 2019, MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) filed a lawsuit, on behalf of an individual job applicant work-authorized through DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which alleged that...
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 MoreLOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement on the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:...
Read More(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Civil rights organizations have filed a motion for summary judgement in a lawsuit that seeks to block the Trump administration from unlawfully implementing new limits on DACA, according to papers filed in...
Read MoreWASHINGTON, D.C. – Chad Wolf is unlawfully serving as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security and therefore his memo placing new restrictions on DACA must be nullified, according to a federal lawsuit filed today. MALDEF (Mexican...
Read MoreGreenbelt, MD – Civil rights groups asked a federal court on Monday to prevent the Trump administration from ending the 2020 Census count more than a month early. Attorneys with MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and...
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, CA – On Women’s Equality Day, the nation commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. However, when the amendment was ratified 100 years ago, the same barriers...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES, CA – MALDEF mourns the passing of former board member Grace Montañez Davis, who died at age 93 earlier this week. In 1975, Davis became the first Mexican American woman to serve as deputy mayor of Los Angeles. An...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES, CA – A Latino civil rights group warned two Arizona school districts on Friday that enrollment forms seeking information about citizenship status violate the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that guarantees every...
Read MoreGreenbelt, MD – Civil rights groups are expanding an ongoing 2019 federal lawsuit to include claims against the Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to cut short the 2020 Census and to exclude some individuals from the...
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