Jun 11, 2014 - LATINO LEADERS TO RELEASE REPORT ON VOTING RIGHTS VIOLATIONS NATIONWIDE

MEDIA ADVISORY
June 9, 2014

Washington, DC— The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), the coalition of 37 preeminent national Latino organizations, in conjunction with NALEO and MALDEF, will release a report describing the egregious and far-reaching discrimination faced by Latino voters in past election cycles and since the Supreme Court decided Shelby County v Holder in June 2013. The report underscores the need for Congress to move legislatively on updating the Voting Rights Act. A bill, the Voting Rights Amendment Act (VRAA), HR 3899, was introduced in January 2014 and currently has 22 bipartisan cosponsors. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the committee of jurisdiction, has yet to schedule a hearing on the bill.

WHO: The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), MALDEF, NALEO.

Speakers include:

Hector Sanchez, NHLA Chair and LCLAA Executive Director

Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF President and General Counsel

Rosalind Gold, NALEO, Senior Director of Policy, Research and Advocacy

Honorable Luz Weinberg, Commissioner, City of Aventura, Florida

WHAT: The release of a report, “Latino Voters at Risk, Support for Modernizing the VRA” authored by MALDEF and NALEO on voting discrimination that will detail the egregious voting rights violations that have occurred in past election cycles and since the Supreme Court ruled in Shelby County v Holder last June.

WHEN: Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.

WHERE: The steps of the United States Supreme Court, 1 First Street, NE

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