On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against North Carolina’s new voter suppression law. According to DOJ, the law violates the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 by discriminating against minorities.
“All students benefit when people from different backgrounds and perspectives learn and work together,” MacNamara said of the Supreme Court's Fisher decision.
Last week, the League partnered with fellow voting and civil rights partner/groups to host a tweetchat on the critical voting rights case, Arizona v.
Please join us at 2:00pm ET this Friday, March 15th, as LWVUS and fellow voting and civil rights groups host an #NVRA Tweetchat to explain the nation’s strong need for the National Voter Registration Act. Use hashtag #NVRA to join the conversation.
EDITORIAL NOTE: This blog post was originally published on the Huffington Post.
EDITORIAL NOTE: This blog post was originally published on the Huffington Post.
With Thanksgiving just a week away and the movie “Lincoln” opening in theaters tomorrow, we might do well to remember that the first Thanksgiving was proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln at a time when our country was embroiled in civil war over whether all Americans were really created equal.
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Supreme Court Set to Review Voting Rights Act
On October 10, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Fisher v. Austin. The question that the Court will consider is whether prior Supreme Court decisions on racial equality, including the latest college admissions decision in 2003, permit the University of Texas to use race in the selection of its freshman classes.
