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Voting Rights

SCSJ, Civil Rights Groups File Federal Lawsuit to Block Racially Discriminatory Redistricting in Texas

Austin, T.X. (November 16, 2021) — Civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, Fair Maps Texas Action Committee v. Abbott, challenging new Texas state legislative and…

Voting Rights

Texas Groups Join Regional Effort to Prepare Voters for Redistricting Process

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 22, 2021

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Sailor Jones, Communications Director, SCSJ, sailor@scsj.org, 919-260-5906
Fair Maps Texas, the Texas NAACP, and the League of…

Voting Rights

OP-ED: Gov. Abbott’s Attacks on Texas’ Checks and Balances Will Not Go Unchecked

Read the League of Women Voters of Texas’ recent op-ed HERE. Angry at his party’s failure to pass a sweeping anti-voter law, last month Texas…

Justice System Reform

OP-ED: Arrested for voting? Hervis Rogers and the case against disappearing our voters.

Read SCSJ’s Equal Justice Works Fellow Mitchell Brown’s Houston Chronicle op-ed HERE. Last week, when Attorney General Ken Paxton arrested Hervis Rogers for allegedly casting an…

What is racial gerrymandering and why should I care?

Recently Slate writer David Weigel wrote a detailed article discussing the effects of racial gerrymandering on politics in North Carolina, one of the states where…

Will Texas’ History Of Intentional Race Discrimination Come Back To Haunt It?

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TPMDC Will Texas’ History Of Intentional Race Discrimination Come Back To Haunt It? Sahil Kapur July 9, 2013, 7:19 AM Texas is…

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SCSJ, Civil Rights Groups File Federal Lawsuit to Block Racially Discriminatory Redistricting in Texas

Texas Groups Join Regional Effort to Prepare Voters for Redistricting Process

OP-ED: Gov. Abbott’s Attacks on Texas’ Checks and Balances Will Not Go Unchecked

OP-ED: Arrested for voting? Hervis Rogers and the case against disappearing our voters.

What is racial gerrymandering and why should I care?

Will Texas’ History Of Intentional Race Discrimination Come Back To Haunt It?