Issues, Not Outreach, Account for Vast Majority of Asian Americans Voting Democratic
Asian American voters were considered a swing voting bloc in the weeks leading up to Election Day, but Obama scooped the Asian American vote by a wide margin, with 72% voting for President Obama and 26% for Mitt Ro...
November 6, 2012 – Many Asian American voters, especially new citizens and first-time voters, encountered barriers at polling places, including inadequate language assistance, excessive requests for identification and voter eligibility, and missing names on voter rolls.
The Asian American Legal Def...
November 6, 2012 — Because many New York City neighborhoods, in particular Manhattan’s Chinatown, were ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, the New York City Board of Elections changed the location of numerous poll sites, as recently as Monday evening before the election. On Monday, Nov. 5, Governor Cuomo is...
November 6, 2012 — A new national poll of Asian American voters has revealed their emerging role as politically active citizens in the 2012 elections and some surprising views on key policy issues, such as immigration reform and the budget deficit.
In a telephone survey of 800 Asian American voters...
November 5, 2012 — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will dispatch over 800 attorneys, law students, and community volunteers to 14 states to document voter problems on Election Day. AALDEF will also conduct a nonpartisan multilingual exit poll in 13 languages to get a sna...
If you are suffering from what I call “pollsy,” the state of being bombarded by one campaign poll after another, do yourself a favor. Ignore most of them. Save your energy for the only one that counts. On Tuesday, November 6, the general election takes place, and it could be the most important vote ...
AALDEF Poll Monitoring Shows Violations of Asian American Voting Rights in NY, NJ, VA, PA, GA, MA
October 31, 2012 — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice urging the Attorney General to assign attorneys and appoint federa...
Baseball is still America’s pastime, though the final game of the World Series on Sunday may have been eclipsed by the fear of Hurricane Sandy, as well as the public’s love of that other game, the brutish football. Indeed, Sandy’s enormity, claiming lives, destroying property, and leaving millions w...
This week, the gastropub Spitzer’s Corner and former kitchen employee Edward Kim effectuated settlement of a wage-and-hour action Kim filed earlier this May in Manhattan federal court, Kim v. NYLA Cafe, LLC, Case No. 12 Civ. 3214 (S.D.N.Y.).
AALDEF filed suit on behalf of Kim against the restaurant...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 38-year old civil rights organization, released a new report today documenting the many obstacles faced by Asian American voters during the Presidential Primary Elections in early 2012.
Asian Americans are the nation’s fastest growing ...
I’m still not a fan of how Saturday Night Live portrayed Chinese factory workers with black wigs, black-frame glasses and ching-chong accents two weeks ago.
But the program may have redeemed itself by unveiling a tour-de-force performance by the unbelievably talented Bruno Mars.
Make that Asian Am...
New York Times – Joshua Pajarillo stood outside Seafood City, greeting fellow Filipinos in Tagalog – one of his native country’s main languages – and trying to get them to stop and fill out Clark County’s new voter registration form…
Queens Campaigner – The nonpartisan commission charged with drawing new City Council districts has isolated itself from criticism by not completing a comprehensive first draft, critics of the process contended…
I called it the “New Charlie Chan-ism” when it surfaced on Saturday Night Live two years ago with its depiction of Chinese President Hu Jintao at a mock press conference.
But this past weekend SNL’s “Charlie Chan” style is back, and it’s actually worse.
Did you see the SNL skit where they show the...
After the Supreme Court hearing earlier this year on the Affordable Care Act and this week’s hearing on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin and affirmative action, I have a new appreciation for tea leaves.
They have far greater predictive powers compared to any actual courtroom hearing if you’r...
The Horn – A panel of experts convened at UT Wednesday to discuss the positive potential of affirmative action admission policies – exactly one week before UT will defend the constitutionality of the practice before the U.S. Supreme Court…
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 38-year old national civil rights organization, announced that it will dispatch over 600 attorneys, law students, and community volunteers to 14 states to document voting problems in the November 6th elections. AALDEF will also conduct ...
Slate – Next week, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the case that could end affirmative action for public colleges and universities across the country–or not. Scores of briefs…
New York Times – East Harlem would be split in two, and represented by two New York City Council members, including one from the Bronx. Two neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens with fast-growing Asian-American populations…
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) released their report, “Policy Recommendations: Effective Accountability Mechanisms for New York State’s English Language Learners (ELLs),” which provides guidelines for successful accountabilit...
