Challenge to halt Texas’ threatened removal of thousands of naturalized citizens from the voter registration rolls based on wholly unreliable and unverified accusations of non-citizen voting.
“To the extent we have had baby boomers running for president for the past few decades, they got an education in a world when you did not have to take on debt."
“You definitely get the feeling that they’re trying to run the numbers up — that they want to be able to say that there’s a lot of voter fraud out there."
If we want to pass climate policies that could actually help reverse the climate crisis, then we also need to fix our democratic system that gives too much power to wealthy donors and big polluters.
Our intervention to prevent the adoption of roll-maintenance practices that would result in the removal of qualified voters from Los Angeles County's voter rolls
Challenge to guarantee that public assistance clients in Missouri receive the voter registration services required by Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act.
Challenge to Arizona’s failure to provide voter registration services required under federal law when residents interact with the state motor vehicle agency.
A legal suit to guarantee that public assistance clients in Georgia receive the voter registration services required by Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act.
Challenge to guarantee that public assistance clients in Massachusetts receive the voter registration services required by Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act.
Challenge to guarantee that public assistance clients in Ohio receive the voter registration services required by Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act.
In 2012, Michigan passed a law that allowed the governor to appoint emergency managers in municipalities, depriving local elected officials of governing power. It overwhelming affected communities of color. We filed an amicus brief in opposition to it.
“There are massive benefits to institutions, to students themselves in the long term in being more diverse and having a set of students from different backgrounds.”
We have faith that with the tireless work of the grassroots organizers, we will one day live in an America where every election — in every corner of the country — is free and fair for everyone.
Loans may be one solution for helping students afford college and increase achievement, but grants that don't have to be repaid is another. The researchers are working on a new study that examines the academic effects of federal loans versus grant aid and agree that the effects of the federal Pell Grant may be stronger on academic performance, Marx said.
Democrats have proposed H.R. 1, a bill that would make our democracy more equitable, improved access for vulnerable groups to have a real say in how we are governed, and roll back voting restrictions that have disproportionately harmed people of color.
If the goal is to resegregate higher education, the efforts have largely worked. Amid budget cuts and attacks on affirmative action, elite public colleges are enrolling fewer black students than they were a generation ago.