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Federal Court Denies Tennessee Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Voter Registration Law
On Monday, September 9, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Aleta A. Trauger issued a ruling, denying Tennessee's motion to dismiss our lawsuit which challenges the state's restrictive new voter registration law.
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Lawsuits against Tennessee Voter Registration Law Can Move forward, Federal Judge Rules
The new law allows the state to charge voter registration groups with Class A misdemeanors if they knowingly or intentionally pay workers based on quotas; if they enroll 100 or more voters and don't complete state training, or if they enroll 100-plus voters and fail to ship completed forms by the deadline or within 10 days of registration drives.
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Student Organization Encourages Students to Register to Vote Following Low 2018 Midterm Turnout
Vote Everywhere is a student organization at Iowa State with goals including increasing voter turnout and ensuring people are registered to vote. The president of the organization Hayat Sumael, sophomore in criminal justice, said the organization is planning on collaborating with the College Democrats and College Republicans to boost student voter registration numbers, using events like the mock caucus, scheduled for Oct. 17.
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Mid-South Peace & Justice among Plaintiffs Working to Block New Voter Registration Law
Contending the law “undermines democratic principles,” the plaintiffs filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court Friday in Nashville, the Associated Press reported. The potential penalties and fines could be “kind of a death sentence” for small groups such as Memphis-based Mid-South Peace & Justice that try to involve as many people as possible in the democratic process, said its organizing director, Paul Garner.
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Stony Brook Student Honored with Hidden Hero Award
This article was originally published in The Statesman on August 31, 2019. Recent Stony Brook alumna Yark Beyan was awarded the Hidden Hero Award by the Andrew Goodman Foundation (AGF) for her commitment to promoting civic engagement on June 22. The AGF focuses on encouraging…
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Tennessee Voting Rights Activists Fight New Registration Restrictions
"This law is an intentional and unconstitutional assault on voting rights," David Goodman said in a statement announcing the injunction request. "It is designed to discourage organizations from registering voters by employing intimidation tactics and imposing vague and excessive barriers."
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Are we becoming the America that allowed the Freedom Summer Tragedy?
Recent events make me think this is not the America for which my brother, Andrew Goodman, died. My family and others who struggled through the civil rights movement had hoped that murders by domestic terrorists and the sanctioning of the systematic disenfranchisement of minorities were a thing of the past.
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Groups seek to block Tennessee voter signup penalties law
Tennessee's new voter suppression law is set to take effect on October 1, 2019. The Andrew Goodman Foundation and a coalition of other civil rights organizations have filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent the state of Tennessee from implementing or enforcing the law.
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Census 2020: What Is Prison Gerrymandering?
Now, as Presidential candidates are engaging with questions around issues like prisoner disenfranchisement on the national stage, you may start to hear the term “prison gerrymandering” in relation to the Census. But what is prison-based gerrymandering? Here’s a quick rundown.
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Leading Civil Rights Organizations File a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction to Prevent the State of Tennessee from Implementing an Anti-Democratic Voter Suppression Law
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and its pro bono partner Hogan Lovells US, LLP, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction on behalf of the Tennessee State Conference of the N.A.A.C.P., Democracy Nashville-Democratic Communities, The Equity Alliance, and The Andrew Goodman Foundation, to prevent the state of Tennessee from implementing a voter suppression law, set to go into effect on October 1, 2019.
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