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Voting and Civil Rights Groups Urge Court to Protect NC Voters

RALEIGH, N.C. (Feb. 3, 2025) — A broad coalition of nonpartisan civic engagement groups and more than two dozen North Carolina voters filed an amicus brief Monday in a legal case where a trailing N.C. Supreme Court candidate wants to invalidate tens of thousands of votes.   Represented by attorneys at Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Forward…

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Statewide Advocacy Groups Announce Departure from X (formerly Twitter) Due to Misinformation, Hate Speech, and Extremist Content

RALEIGH, N.C. (Jan. 31, 2025) — A coalition of statewide advocacy groups, including Democracy North Carolina, North Carolina For the People, N.C. For the People Action, Emancipate NC, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, El Pueblo, and Pro-Choice North Carolina, are formally discontinuing its presence on X (formerly Twitter) due to the platform’s increasing role in spreading harmful mis/disinformation, the proliferation of hate speech,…

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"Many of the voting rights success stories across the South have been the result of small but mighty organizations working tirelessly and fearlessly to make sure all voices are heard, despite efforts from politicians in many places to suppress the vote, particularly among communities of color."

— Mitchell Brown, SOLVE Network Coordinator and Senior Counsel for Voting Rights at SCSJ

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JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORM

Move the Monument Coalition Edenton-Chowan

SCSJ and Emancipate NC are assisting the Move the Monument Coalition Edenton-Chowan in their fight to remove a Confederate soldier statute from the town’s historic waterfront.

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VOTING RIGHTS

Petteway v. Galveston County

SCSJ filed a challenge to the Galveston County Commissioners' 2021 precinct map in April 2022 on behalf of three local NAACP branches, the local Galveston LULAC Council 151, and three Black and Latino voters, in partnership with co-counsel from Texas Civil Rights Project and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Clayton, et. al. v. Person County

SCSJ is challenging Person County's rezoning of parcels from rural residential and conservation designations to industrial zoning. Dominion Energy’s plans to construct and operate the proposed Moriah Energy Center (MEC) liquified methane storage facility on the rezoned parcels.

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