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Press Release: Civil Rights Groups Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Block Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law S.B. 4 in Texas
Civil Rights Groups Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Block Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law S.B. 4 in Texas Request comes days after Fifth Circuit...
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Mar 4, 20242 min read
Civil Rights Groups Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Block Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law S.B. 4 in Texas
Request comes days after Fifth Circuit Court issued an administrative stay, which would have allowed law to go into effect this weekend...
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Mar 4, 20242 min read
Immigration Advocates Criticize Biden's Border Visit
Biden touts bipartisan immigration bill as “toughest set of border security reforms” the country has ever seen FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
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Feb 29, 20242 min read
Federal Court Blocks Extreme Texas Legislation That Would Overstep Federal Immigration Law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 29, 2024 CONTACT: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Gabby...
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Feb 29, 20244 min read
Civil Rights Groups React to Federal Court Hearing in Preliminary Injunction for Texas Senate Bill 4
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2024 Contact: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Gabby...
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Feb 15, 20243 min read
TCRP Wins Preliminary Injunction in Houston Food Sharing Challenge
Food Not Bombs Houston will be allowed to continue food-sharing without fines as the case moves forward FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February...
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Feb 15, 20242 min read
Two Texas School Districts Accused of Violating Federal Education and Civil Rights Laws
Students with Disabilities and Students of Color Pushed Out of School FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 6, 2024 Contacts: Laura Felix, Texas...
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Feb 6, 20245 min read
TCRP Files Amended Complaint Against Prison Officials for Civil Rights Violations
Dennis Hope was subjected to multiple violations of the Constitution during his decades of solitary confinement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
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Feb 5, 20242 min read
TCRP Files Lawsuit to Stop Enforcement of Houston Anti-Food Sharing Ordinance
The ordinance has resulted in egregious fines and prosecutions of local Food Not Bombs volunteers, simply for feeding homeless community...
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Jan 30, 20243 min read
Immigration Advocates Criticize Gov. Abbott's Statement Claiming Texas has the Right to Defend itself by Creating Illegal and Racist Immigration Laws
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org AUSTIN, TEXAS - This week, Governor Greg Abbott issued...
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Jan 26, 20242 min read
Civil Rights Groups File Preliminary Injunction to Block Texas’ Anti-Immigrant Law S.B. 4 From Taking Effect
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2024 CONTACT: Kristi Gross, ACLU of Texas, media@aclutx.org Gabby Arias, ACLU, media@aclu.org Savannah...
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Jan 12, 20242 min read
Civil Rights Groups Sue to Block Texas from Enacting Extremist Immigration Law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2023 CONTACT: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Gabby...
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Dec 19, 20233 min read
Election Protection at Work: Improving Voting Access for People With Disabilities
Our Election Protection team often says that if you have any issues voting, you should call 866-OUR-VOTE. But how does a phone call help...
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Oct 4, 20223 min read
Young People Getting Fired Up To Vote in Texas
New analysis from political data from the polling firm TargetSmart found that while Texas’ new voter registrants are evenly split between...
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Sep 19, 20222 min read
What’s The Difference Between Poll Workers, Poll Watchers, and Poll Monitors?
We hear a lot about various groups related to the polling place, and it can get confusing to distinguish between them. Let’s break down...
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Sep 19, 20221 min read
Carl Blair Reflects on His Time as an Election Protection Legal Volunteer
My parents were both born in the early 1950s, well over a decade before the Voting Rights Act changed the very fabric of our democracy. ...
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Sep 8, 20222 min read
Luke Freedman Reaffirms His Passion for Public Interest Law as a Summer Law Clerk for TCRP
Earlier this summer, as a Summer Law Clerk for TCRP, I was in a meeting with TCRP Attorney’s discussing legal strategy for a suit against...
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Sep 7, 20222 min read
The Facts on Senate Bill 1: Changes in Texas Election Law since 2020
In the aftermath of a persistent myth regarding a stolen 2020 presidential election, partisan policymakers trumpeted measures to reshape,...
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Sep 1, 20222 min read
The Facts on Senate Bill 1: Changes in Texas Election Law since 2020
In the aftermath of a persistent myth regarding a stolen 2020 presidential election, partisan policymakers trumpeted measures to reshape,...
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Sep 1, 20222 min read
Kaylie Hidalgo Discovers Hope for Texas as a TCRP Law Clerk
As a law student aspiring to pursue civil rights law and contribute to progressive change, it was difficult to find my footing in the...
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Aug 31, 20222 min read
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