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Contact: Elianne Ramos, 212-739-7513, [email protected]
LATINOJUSTICE STATEMENT ON THE SENATE VOTE TO CONFIRM AMY CONEY BARRETT TO THE SUPREME COURT
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Contact: Elianne Ramos, 212-739-7513, [email protected]
LATINOJUSTICE STATEMENT ON THE SENATE VOTE TO CONFIRM AMY CONEY BARRETT TO THE SUPREME COURT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 18th, 2020
Contact: Elianne Ramos; Chief Communications Officer; [email protected]; 212.739.7513
LatinoJustice’s Statement on U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA)
The Supreme Court's decision continues a pattern of making race claims more difficult to bring at the pleading stage of litigation. LatinoJustice PRLDEF joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and others in an amicus brief urging the Court that credible allegations that race played a part in employment decisions impede the right to contract on equal terms as whites in this country – the guarantee in the country’s oldest civil rights statute, Section 1981.
This article was originally published on Latino Rebels here.
Statement of Juan Cartagena, President & General Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF on the collaboration between the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and LatinoJustice PRLDEF to support the DACA program and to highlight how the Trump Administration believes its executive decisions cannot be challenged in court even whey they are motivated by race.
CONTACT: Christiaan Perez, [email protected], 212-739-7581
In a few weeks, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments to decide the fate of the “Citizenship Question” in the 2020 Census. LatinoJustice and Locke and Lord, LLP, along with some of the nation’s most prominent Latino, and other community nonprofit organizations, filed an Amicus, also known as a “friend of the court” brief. This brief details why the Supreme Court should affirm the district court’s ruling that the citizenship question is unconstitutional and that the subsequent undercount result in a loss of federal funding to several states and a severe reduction in political power, resources and participation in the Latino community.
On August 10th, a group of Latino leaders launched “Hispanics for a Fair Judiciary,” (HFJ) a network of Latino elected officials, legal, civil rights, labor, and academic voices committed to raising awareness around the impact federal courts and judges have on the Latino community.
Participants discussed the judiciary’s importance as the last line of defense on issues ranging from immigration and voting rights to reproductive justice and labor protections. They also weighed in on Judge Kavanaugh’s record and potential impact on the Latino community.