Courthouse News Service - Texas officials got up swinging this week after a federal judge found the state’s exclusion of interpreters at polling sites unconstitutional, and said they will ask the Supreme Court to reverse another ruling….
St. Paul Asian American Press - The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) applauded a federal court order blocking the Texas law that limits access to interpreters for limited English proficient (LEP) voters…
China Daily USA - A ruling by a federal judge will enable residents of Texas with little or no understanding of English to have any interpreter help them on election day in the voting booth. US District Judge Robert Pitman on Aug 12 blocked a Texas state law…
NBC News - In a ove that some say affirms the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a Federal judge in Texas has agreed with Asian-American activists who claimed existing Texas election code unfairly kept voters with language needs from choosing the help they want…
Houston Chronicle - Voting rights advocates are poised to propose changes to help voters who face language barriers at the polls after a federal judge ruled recently that a provision of Texas law violated the Voting Rights Act…
AsAm News - The last thing someone hired to do outreach to the Asian vote needed was some offensive comments he made about the Asian community. But as the NY Post reports, that’s what happened to Daniel Randell…
New York Post - A young political operative disparaged Asians on social media–and then landed a job requiring him to solicit their votes for a state Senate candidate, The Post has learned. “Dear Asians, at least wear name tags or something…”
Asian Journal - The announcement of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) as Hillary Clinton’s running mate was met with mixed reactions. Critics felt the generally unknown junior senator was an underwhelming pick for the high profile Democratic presidential nominee…
The Lo-Down - Years after an unprecedented neighborhood preservation effort got underway, city planning officials, Community Board 3 and local elected officials have finally begun talks about a rezoning of Chinatown…
NBC News - Arriving by bus at their hotel Sunday afternoon, Asian-American delegates from Virginia were energized about a Clinton-Kaine ticket, even as U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida announced she would step down…
Arirang TV - A group of Korean American students are approaching shoppers in Fort Lee, New Jersey, aiming to help them with voter registration. They are summer interns at a civic organization, called Korean American Civic Empowerment…
NBC News - Asian Americans were among those who encountered snags voting at New York City polling sites during Tuesday’s congressional primary, according to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)…
India West - Indian Americans and Asian American community organizations were split in their response to a Supreme Court ruling June 23 that upheld the constitutionality of the race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas…
NBC News - Three years after the Supreme Court invalidated part of the Voting Rights Act, voting rights advocates and some elected officials are concerned that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are among those increasingly threatened by voter discrimination…
Slate - There are a lot of reasons to celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher vs. University of Texas II and the seemingly dogged persistence of affirmative action in higher education. The decision may slow the three decade-long attack…
NBC News - Asian-American advocacy groups and elected officials voiced disappointment with a 4-4 Supreme Court split Thursday that will prevent President Barack Obama from carrying out an executive action on immigration…
NBC News - The U.S. Supreme Court’s 4-3 vote Thursday to uphold the affirmative action policy at the University of Texas at Austin generally received praise from Asian-American advocacy groups and elected officials…
AsAm News - By a 4-3 majority, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the use of race in admissions at the University of Texas as constitutional. The case was filed by Abigail Fisher…
AsAm News - President Obama’s executive order protecting millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and allowing them to work has been blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices deadlocked 4-4…
Center for American Progress - This month marks the fourth anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, initiative, which grants a temporary reprieve from deportation and the opportunity to request work authorization…
