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Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." [ 1 ] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States have equal protection under ...
Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court with regard to voting rights and, by extension, racial desegregation. It overturned the Texas state law that authorized parties to set their internal rules, including the use of white primaries. The court ruled that it was unconstitutional for ...
Grovey, a black Texas resident, sued Townsend, a county clerk enforcing the rule, for violation of Grovey's civil rights under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Court unanimously upheld the party's rule as constitutional, distinguishing the discrimination by a private organization from that of the state in the previous primary cases.
And while in 2022 the Texas Tribune reported emails indicating the Justice Department was probing claims of civil rights violations under Operation Lone Star, the federal government has never ...
Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 576 U.S. 200 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that license plates are government speech and are consequently more easily regulated/subjected to content restrictions than private speech under the First Amendment.
The raids have triggered outrage and cries of voter suppression in Texas, a state with a long history of ... Latino civil rights group. ... of violations of the Texas election laws regarding vote ...
Ten civil rights groups are urging the Dept. of Justice to investigate Texas' "Operation Lone Star," a border enforcement operation by Gov. Greg Abbott.
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction era in response to civil rights violations against African Americans. The bill was passed by the 43rd United States Congress and signed into law by United States President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1875.