WBGZ Radio 5/29/2021 |
By Greg Bishop - Illinois Radio Network
With the end of the spring session for the Illinois Legislature just days away, it’s expected the Democratic supermajority will pass new district boundaries.
Some advocacy groups oppose the maps that have been proposed so far.
Democrats released proposed maps late Friday and another release of Google Map files on Sunday. Hearings this week are getting feedback from various groups.
Griselda Vega Samuel with the group Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF, quoted a Democrat-hired expert who said during a Tuesday hearing that using American Community Survey data was acceptable, despite being inaccurate.
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(CN) Judge Maria Lucy Armendariz never told her story to anyone before she was elected to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench in 2018.
“Childhood for me was hardly idyllic,” Armendariz said as she recalled growing up in East Los Angeles with a mother sentenced to life in prison when she was just eight years old. Armendariz was raised in foster homes, and as she grew closer to aging out of the system, she knew she needed a plan. “Back in those days they would just kick you out at age 18 so I knew early on that I had to figure out what I was going to do with my life,” she said.
(The Center Square) – With the end of the spring session for the Illinois Legislature just days away, it’s expected the Democratic supermajority will pass new district boundaries. Some advocacy groups oppose the maps th.
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H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, would give liberal bureaucrats in the Department of Justice (DOJ) the power to veto changes of polling place locations, voter ID and registration requirements, and the boundary lines in redistricting in
every single state. It would also change legal standards to make it almost impossible for states to defend themselves against meritless litigation.
Supreme Court Ruling in
Shelby County v. Holder
H.R. 4 is intended to overturn the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in
Shelby County v. Holder (2013),REF which struck down the coverage formula for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Section 5 was intended to be a temporary provision that required covered jurisdictions to get approval (preclearance) from the DOJ or a federal court in Washington, DC, before making any changes in their voting laws.
The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center is stepping down after nearly two decades
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Chon Noriega speaking during a tour of the Chicano Studies Research Center–organized exhibition “Home So Different, So Appealing” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2017. Noela Hueso |
May 21, 2021
When Chon Noriega became director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, he saw it as an opportunity for him to take some of the things he was doing at other institutions around the country bringing artist papers into archival settings, developing media-based teaching materials on race and ethnicity, and curating exhibitions and festivals and bring them into one place at UCLA.