You may recall the picture of the anonymous “Tank Man” who stood up alone to the columns of military might rolling into Tienanmen Square in 1989.
It reminded me of Pelosi this week in 2022, though she was no anonymous passerby, and certainly no “Tank Lady.”
Not when you’re the third highest ranki...
“Asian Americans benefit from affirmative action, and all students benefit from the diverse student body that affirmative action cultivates.”
NEW YORK, NY — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of 121 Asian Amer...
By now, anyone concerned about the rollback of social justice in America can name every single member of the U.S. Supreme Court. That’s how political the high court has become. For every issue, we know the “count.”
We know the death knell of the 6-3. We know exactly who’s on the six and who’s among...
By Jessica Montoya Coggins/Texas Signal
Voting rights advocates have seen few wins in Texas, especially since the Republican legislature passed the sweeping voter suppression bill known as Senate Bill 1. However, recently, there was one ruling that struck down at least a portion of SB 1, which impe...
When I think of Jan. 6, I think of Michael Fanone, the Metropolitan Police Department Officer who’s become somewhat famous for defending democracy. As he was brutally attacked at the Capitol, his plea for mercy was a simple one.
“I have kids,” he told the mob.
And he does. Three of his four kids a...
By Taylor Goldenstein/Houston Chronicle
Texans who assist voters with disabilities or those with limited English to fill out their ballots will no longer face felony charges if they go beyond simply helping the person mark or read them.
The provisions were part of the controversial elections bill ...
By Ashley Lopez/NPR
Parts of a 2021 Texas voting law that cracked down on assistance for voters with limited English skills and voters with disabilities can no longer be enforced.
A federal judge in Texas issued a ruling last month striking down provisions in Texas’ new law, known as Senate Bill 1...
Coalition of Civil and Voting Rights Organizations Propose Redistricting Map as Alternate to City Commission Map that Weakens Vote of Communities of Color
NEW YORK — The UNITY MAP COALITION, a coalition of the leading legal voting rights advocacy organizations representing people of color in New Yo...
Advocates say Texas’ SB1 voting law made it hard for some voters to obtain the kinds of assistance they need from family or other chosen assisters. The state declined to appeal the court’s permanent injunction in the case.
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By Shelly Brisbin and Yvonne Marquez/KUT
Voters with limited E...
Asian Americans on to the next thing should really take a longer look at that picture of President Biden and Mohammed Bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
I paid $6 bucks for gas this weekend. And I’m still not over the “fist bump for gas pumps” photo op quite yet.
Not if you have any Fil...
It’s amazing what happened when NASA pointed its James Webb Space Telescope into a patch of darkness. Suddenly we saw the whole truth—-stars and galaxies we never knew existed.
It was a look back at the speed of light, about 13 billion years.
I wish all of America could see more clearly right here...
If you’re a Dreamer in the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program, my heart goes out to you after last week’s court hearing in Louisiana at the Fifth Circuit.
My father was undocumented.
He didn’t need any.
Documents, that is. Not in 1928. He was born in the Philippines an American...
You don’t have to be a world leader to mourn the assassination of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The longest serving prime minister of his country, Abe was always the symbol of political Japan to me. He was just always the man.
As Asian Americans, whether immigrants or born here, we alwa...
WASHINGTON, DC — Yesterday, the state of Texas declined to appeal last month’s federal court order, which prohibits Texas from using SB1, a 2021 election law that illegally restricts necessary assistance to limited English-speaking and disabled voters at the polls. Secured by the Asian American Lega...
Ready to get arrested?
You weren’t just going to grill cancerous hot dogs for the holiday, were you? (At least get the vegan ones.)
This holiday weekend, you may have noticed our rights and our very democracy hanging by a thread.
I’m sure you’d rather be doing something more American, more produc...
NEW YORK — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) issued the below statement on the swearing in of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court.
“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson brings tremendous experience and temperament to the highest court in our c...
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund delivered the below statement in response to the Staten Island Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Local Law 11, the Our City Our Vote law, which would have allowed more than 800,000 permanent legal residents and immigrants autho...
You may have been marching and protesting this past weekend, but few had the kind of stage as Olivia Rodrigo, the Asian American Filipina pop megastar.
She spoke out as a voice for her generation before tens of thousands at the Glastonbury Festival in England.
“I’m devastated and terrified,” Rodri...
I saw a crying Asian American woman on the TV news.
She reminded me of my daughters.
What is worse? To kill abortion in America, or to kill our sense of freedom and American democracy?
In Friday’s rulings, the Supreme Court of the United States managed to do both. The court declared itself a poli...
NEW YORK — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) issued the below statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturns Roe v. Wade.
“This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court took our country half a century backwards by reve...
