Please join APABA and UCLA Law’s David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy in a special program on the state of voting rights and voter inclusion! National and state experts will address efforts to fight voter suppression, gerrymandering, the U.S. Census as well as innovations in California to ensure voters inclusion and engagements.
Special guest DALE HO of the ACLU and the Fall 2019 Margaret Levy Public Interest Fellow at UCLA Law, who recently succeeded in the U.S. Supreme Court in keeping a U.S. citizenship question off the 2020 Census, will be joined by KATHAY FENG of Common Cause, ROSALIND GOLD of NALEO, and STEVE REYES (invited) of the California Secretary of State’s office, moderated by KARIN WANG, Executive Director of UCLA Law’s Epstein Program and APABA Advisory Board member.
FREE event | Pre-event reception | 1.5 hrs elimination of bias MCLE
Space limited, RSVP requested: http://bit.ly/DefendDemocracyPanel
Links to Written Materials:
Please use the following links to review cases that will be discussed at the event: Department of Commerce et al. v. New York et al. [U.S. Census case]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/18-966_bq7c.pdf Fish v. Kobach [Kansas voting rights decision]: https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/fish-v-kobach-findings-fact-and-conclusions-law League of Women Voters of N.C. v. North Carolina [North Carolina voting rights decision]: https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/league-women-voters-north-carolina-et-al-v-north-carolina-ruling-0 Rucho v. Common Cause [Constitutional standard for partisan gerrymandering] https://www.commoncause.org/redistricting-litigation/common-cause-v-rucho/# Common Cause v. Lewis [North Carolina state partisan gerrymandering case] https://www.commoncause.org/north-carolina/resource/common-cause-v-lewis The Hofeller Files https://www.commoncause.org/resource/the-hofeller-files/
Please use the following links to review cases that will be discussed at the event:
Rucho v. Common Cause [Constitutional standard for partisan gerrymandering] https://www.commoncause.org/redistricting-litigation/common-cause-v-rucho/#
Common Cause v. Lewis [North Carolina state partisan gerrymandering case] https://www.commoncause.org/north-carolina/resource/common-cause-v-lewis
The Hofeller Files https://www.commoncause.org/resource/the-hofeller-files/
