Residents of Alabama city face water crisis like some other Black communities

November 03, 2023

Esther Schrader

Rissling, et al. v. Bobo, et al.

Voting Rights

Voting Rights - AL

Active Case

Date Filed

October 03, 2023

The Southern Poverty Law Center and its co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit against three Alabama counties for their failure to provide an accessible option for absentee voting by blind and print-disabled voters.

Filed on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind in Alabama and four...

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Protect our democracy: Restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act

September 15, 2023

Laura Williamson

People linked arm in arm march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama

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SPLC demands voting rights protections at March on Washington commemoration

August 28, 2023

Esther Schrader

Members of SPLC delegation in purple branded shirts

Yellowhammer Fund v. Attorney General of Alabama Steve Marshall

Criminal Justice Reform

Active Case

Date Filed

July 31, 2023

After Alabama’s attorney general threatened to criminalize people helping pregnant Alabamians access legal abortion care in other states, The Lawyering Project, joined by the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the attorney general from making good on his threat...

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