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Texas Advocates Shift Focus After Racial Gerrymandering Case Dismissed 

EL PASO, Texas (March 25, 2025) — A coalition of Texas voting and civil rights advocates announced this week they will not continue to pursue litigation related to the discriminatory gerrymandering of Congressional and state legislative districts in the state. “We made a difficult decision to forgo further litigation, but this is not a retreat…

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Group of Nation’s Civil Rights Attorneys Urges SCOTUS to Keep Voting Rights Act Intact

Washington, D.C. (March 21, 2025) — On the heels of the 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the United States Supreme Court will hear Louisiana v. Callais  on Monday, March 24, to decide if a Louisiana congressional map enacted in 2024 is unconstitutional on racial gerrymandering grounds.   This 2024 map was enacted after lower federal courts…

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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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