As the rhetoric around Judge Sotomayor's nomination heats up, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in partnership with the broad Hispanics for a Fair Judiciary coalition has launched a website, Sotomayor For Justice, to counter the misinformation and backwards logic behind opposition to this historic nomination....

Change doesn't come easily to the U.S. Senate, and it's likely that President Obama's judicial picks will run into the same tired antics that continually plague the Senate confirmation process. Progressives need to be prepared to fight back against attempts to block qualified candidates for the judiciary. Two previous nominees...

Last week's Supreme Court decision in Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party is a disastrous ruling masquerading as a populist victory. Sure, the Court stopped the Ohio Republican Party from booting almost 200,000 eligible voters off the voting rolls, but in reaching their decision, the Court pointed to two...

Qualified immunity is one of those absurd abstract legal concepts that you never care about until the police shoot you in the back while you're leaving the mall. (True story, but we'll get to that later.) The Supreme Court next week will hear a case that may lead to a...

Women could lead starkly different lives depending on whether they live under a McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden Administration. At risk is their economic well-being, their health, and their very right to control their own bodies. Looking beyond the sound bites and attack ads, the candidate's actions portray strikingly divergent views on...

Congress, in a stinging rebuke of the Supreme Court, has passed the ADA Amendments Act, which reverses a series of Supreme Court cases that made it nearly impossible to vindicate civil rights enshrined in the Americans with Disabilities Act. In passing the ADA Amendments Act, Congress is finally pushing back...

The nation's attention these last two weeks has been on the flashy conventions, the big speeches, and Sarah Palin's bulldog lipstick. But what hasn't garnered much interest are the real differences in the two parties' platforms. A comparison of the Republican and Democratic platforms on judicial nominations and civil...

What do the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Enron and Worldcom scandals have in common? Corporate greed run amok? Lax government oversight? How about a Supreme Court that has shifted dangerously to the right and is now the most pro-business Court since the monopoly greasing "Lochner-era" Court of the...

Something odd happened in Texas just a few days ago. Tracy Barker, a former Halliburton employee who was sexually assaulted by her co-workers, had her case against Halliburton thrown out by a Bush-appointed federal judge. So why is this odd?

Well, actually, it may seem odd, but it's no...

Last Thursday, Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee shook things up with major victories in the Iowa primary. As the candidates take their fight to New Hampshire, Americans are beginning to get a good sense of where the leading candidates stand on important issues. We have heard plenty so far in...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation's most important employment law--prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. In 1991 Congress extended Title VII's protections beyond private employees to include state employees as well.

But...

Last night, National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights' staffers were on the set of The Colbert Report when Stephen Colbert officially announced that he would run for President of the United States of America. While the Campaign cannot officially endorse any person in the already crowded race, we can offer...