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Voting and Civil Rights Groups Urge Appeals Court to Protect NC Voters

Invalidating 60,000 votes infringes on North Carolinians’ fundamental right to vote.    RALEIGH, N.C. (Feb. 28, 2025) — Discounting the choices of more than 60,000 voters is an unwarranted and dangerous threat to people’s fundamental right to vote, a broad coalition of nonpartisan civic engagement groups and more than 30 North Carolina voters wrote in an…

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NC voters stand outside the Wake County courthouse to demonstrate their opposition to Griffin's election protest.
Voting Rights

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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Vote by mail ballot ripped in half to symbolize N.C. Supreme Court candidate Judge Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to disenfranchise more than 60,000 voters.

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Aerial View of the Roanoke River Lighthouse in Edenton North Carolina

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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