The complaint, which was filed by the Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, ACLU of New Mexico, UCLA Voting Rights Project, DLA Piper on behalf of the Navajo Nation, the NNHRC, and individual Navajo citizens, argues this packing and dilution by the San Juan County Board of Commissioners is purposeful—unlawful under the Voting Rights Act—and will have a detrimental cost for Native American voters in San Juan County.
Read More | May 13, 2022
In her new book, “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands,” Hernández vividly charts the history of the revolutionary Ricardo Flores Magón and the magonistas, whose cross-border rebellion laid the groundwork for the Mexican Revolution that overthrew the dictator Porfirio Díaz, who himself had been a revolutionary.
Latino voters, working with the UCLA Voting Rights Project, recently succeeded in their Washington Voting Rights Act claim. Starting 2024,Franklin County Commission seats will be elected utilizing single-member districts.
Read More | May 12, 2022
The new agreement retains the recently approved maps that keeps most of east Pasco, which is heavily Latino, inside of a single district rather than being divided among all three districts, said UCLA Voting Rights Project attorneys. District 2 is presently represented by Rocky Mullen, who was elected to a four-year term in 2020.
“This poll shows that Latino voters in California still lean heavily in favor of progressive policy solutions, but Democrats are underperforming the 2022 ballot because Latinos report very low levels of information about what both political parties are currently doing,” said Matt Barreto, President of BSP Research and UCLA Professor.
Read More | May 11, 2022
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