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The Conservative Attack on Federal Agency Power

Erosion of Chevron deference would be a massive win for corporations and the conservative legal movement, at the expense of the public interest.

Policy Briefs
Ashley Tjhung

Federal Court Blocks Provision of Florida Law that Targeted Voter Registration and Civic Engagement by Community Organizations

This ruling reaffirms the sanctity of civic engagement and democratic participation. 

Press release/statement

In CFPB v. CFSA Decision, the American People Notch a Win Against Predatory Corporate Entities 

Today's ruling is a powerful affirmation: the CFPB stands as a fortress against financial predators, especially crucial for communities of color battered by decades of discriminatory banking practices.

Press release/statement
Taifa Smith Butler

Economic Security For All

 

Dēmos envisions an economy where all people can regularly meet their daily needs.

Our economy leaves working families with inadequate pay and unaffordable goods and services, making it difficult to make ends meet. Structural racism in our economic institutions makes economic security even harder for

Amicus Brief in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP

Litigation
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
The Leadership Conference
Leadership Conference Education Fund
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
The Campaign Legal Center
Demos
League of Women Voters
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

The Attack on Vote-by-Mail: Weaponizing “Voter Fraud” Claims to Suppress the Vote

The specter of voter fraud is a talking point deployed to silence the voices of Black and brown voters across the country.

Policy Briefs
Chiraag Bains
Laura Williamson

A Race-Forward Economic Response to COVID-19

Black & Brown Voter Access in COVID-19

Ohio's Primary Is a Mess: How the State Is Restricting the Vote during the COVID Crisis (And What We're Doing About It)

The Ohio legislature created a wholly avoidable, overly complicated situation that makes Ohioans jump through hoops to vote. Ohio voters: we want to hear about your experience.

Blog
Naila Awan
Emerson Gordon-Marvin

Protect Black and Brown Workers on the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Fight

A unique set of injustices confront workers still heading off to a job every day in the midst of a pandemic. 

Blog
Amy Traub

Racial Justice Groups Take Legal Action Against FL Governor Ron DeSantis Demanding Changes to Upcoming Elections Due to COVID-19 Pandemic

“The collective trauma of this pandemic is exposing the sheer depth of inequality in this country and the consequences that has always presented for Black and brown communities. We hope that Florida election officials will stand on the right side of history..."

Press release/statement

Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Dēmos Represent Parties Seeking to Prevent Voter Purges in Election Year

“In litigating these voter purge cases across the country, we have seen Judicial Watch and similar groups use bad data, routinely rejected by courts, to try to undermine political participation.”

Press release/statement

Fifty Years After Earth Day, Coronavirus, Climate Injustice, and Inequality Collide

The COVID-19 pandemic is an environmental justice crisis—it has exposed inequalities that have persisted in places across the country with decades of pollution.

Blog
Adrien Salazar

We’ve Been Socially Distanced for Decades. It’s Called Racism.

Our society has actually been built upon and defined by social distancing for many years. It’s called systemic and institutional racism.

In the media
Blavity
Rodney McKenzie, Jr.

Judicial Watch v. North Carolina

Intervention on behalf of the of League of Women Voters of North Carolina and the North Carolina A. Philip Randolph Institute to defend North Carolina voters from a right-wing group’s attempt to bully elections officials into unlawfully purging voters before the coming presidential election.

Case
Updated April 25, 2020

Statement From Demos: Lawsuit Filed to Demand that New Mexico Jump-Start Voter Registration Efforts

Voting rights groups sue NM officials for failing to comply with the National Voter Registration Act

SANTA FE, NM — Citing clear evidence that New Mexico public assistance agencies and moter vehicle offices have violated their federally mandated responsibility to offer tens of thousands of New Mexicans each year the opportunity to register to vote, a coalition of voting rights groups filed suit today against officials in New Mexico for violations of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).

Press release/statement

Racial Justice and Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus: A Conversation with Sabeel Rahman

There have been devastating reports of disproportionate rates of death in Black communities as a result of COVID-19. Racial capitalism and structural racism are to blame.

In the media
Race and Democracy
K. Sabeel Rahman
Dr. Peniel Joseph

Governing to Build Power

Progressives must see every policy fight as about more than its issues —it's an opportunity to shift power to Black and brown communities and working families. 

Policy Briefs
K. Sabeel Rahman

How to Build a Racially Inclusive Democracy During COVID-19 and Beyond

The three sets of steps policymakers and election officials must take to ensure that Black and brown Americans—and all Americans—can exercise their fundamental right to vote in 2020 and beyond.

Policy Briefs
Laura Williamson

How Dog-Whistle Racism Is Sabotaging the Postal Service and Threatening to Gut the Black Middle Class

The Postal Service faces a $13 billion revenue loss this fiscal year alone; If the Postal Service is allowed to fail, it will be a tremendous blow to all Americans.

Blog
Amy Traub