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SCSJ’s Statement on Appeal in Moriah Energy Center Case

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Louisiana Historians Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Allow Congressional Map with Second Majority-Black District 

DURHAM, N.C. (Dec. 27, 2024) – A group of historians in Louisiana is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision to strike down a map creating a second majority-Black congressional district in the state, according to an amicus brief filed December 26, 2024.  The brief was filed Thursday in the consolidated…

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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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