SAN ANTONIO—A Latino civil rights organization is suing the City of Greeley, Colorado, and its officials over the City Council redistricting map because it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and dilutes the representation of Latino...
Redistricting
MALDEF STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT DECISION IN LOUISIANA V. CALLAIS
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that Louisiana’s creation of a second majority-Black district to remedy discrimination in the state’s congressional map violates the U.S. Constitution in Louisiana v. Callais, a landmark case that dismantled long-standing protections for minority voters in redistricting.
MALDEF STATEMENT ON NINTH CIRCUIT DECISION IN WASHINGTON STATE REDISTRICTING CASE
MALDEF REACHES AGREEMENT WITH ILLINOIS REGARDING FEES IN LEGISLATIVE MAPS LAWSUIT
CHICAGO – A Latino civil rights organization has reached a settlement regarding attorney’s fees in a lawsuit against Illinois state election officials and leaders of the state legislature over the use of redistricting plans that relied on population estimates rather than 2020 Census data, according to papers filed in federal court last week.
VOTING RIGHTS GROUPS CHALLENGE WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING PLAN
MALDEF STATEMENT ON RULING IN ILLINOIS REDISTRICTING LAWSUIT
TUSTIN MOVES TO DISTRICT ELECTIONS IN RESPONSE TO MALDEF WARNING
FEDERAL COURT SENDS ILLINOIS REDISTRICTING MAPS TO REMEDIAL PROCEEDINGS
CHICAGO – A federal court ruled today that state legislative redistricting plans adopted by the Illinois General Assembly and signed on June 4 by Gov. J.B. Pritzker are malapportioned and unconstitutional. The decision will lead to the federal court reviewing and adopting new maps to be used in the state.
MALDEF CHALLENGES TEXAS REDISTRICTING MAPS
MALDEF UPDATES ILLINOIS REDISTRICTING LAWSUIT TO INCLUDE FEDERAL VRA VIOLATION
Hearing on Oversight of the Voting Rights Act: Potential Legislative Reforms
MALDEF STATEMENT ON CENSUS REDISTRICTING DATA
Testimony of Thomas A. Saenz President and General Counsel, MALDEF Before the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration Hearing on Voting in America: A National Perspective on the Right to Vote, Methods of Election, Jurisdictional Boundaries, and Redistricting
MALDEF SUES ILLINOIS OVER REDISTRICTING PLAN THAT VIOLATES U.S. CONSTITUTION
Civil Rights Organizations Release Redistricting Guide to Support Black, Latino, and AAPI Communities’ Participation in Crucial Process
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC released a comprehensive guide to redistricting, aimed at empowering Black, Latino, and Asian American communities, as well as other marginalized communities, to be actively engaged participants in one of the most important, once-a-decade events of American democracy.