WHAT: Join us for a PRESS CONFERENCE where the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will discuss a lawsuit we are filing on behalf of Councilmember Christopher Marte and the Lower East Side and Chinatown communities. The lawsuit asserts that residents’ rights to health, welfare, ...
NEW YORK — Yesterday, the NYC Districting Commission voted 13 to1 to send their revised districting plan to New York City Council. Yet the Unity Map Coalition points out that the revised plan still has many of the same issues as the prior rejected maps, drawing lines that divide the protected commun...
On Wednesday, August 31, legal counsel representing plaintiffs in the case Fair Maps Texas Action Committee, et al., v. Abbott, et al. released a joint statement responding to the federal District Court’s postponement of the Texas Redistricting trial scheduled to begin on September 28, 2022. The cou...
MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), in partnership with a coalition of local Asian American community organizations, reached a settlement with the City of Malden to resolve the city’s failure to provide Chinese language information and assista...
NEW YORK, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund released the below statement in response to the anti-Asian messages perpetuated in the judicial race in Orlando, Florida.
“In a classic example of the perpetual foreigner stereotype rearing its ugly head, a political consultant in a...
“Asian Americans benefit from affirmative action, and all students benefit from the diverse student body that affirmative action cultivates.”
NEW YORK, NY — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of 121 Asian Amer...
Coalition of Civil and Voting Rights Organizations Propose Redistricting Map as Alternate to City Commission Map that Weakens Vote of Communities of Color
NEW YORK — The UNITY MAP COALITION, a coalition of the leading legal voting rights advocacy organizations representing people of color in New Yo...
WASHINGTON, DC — Yesterday, the state of Texas declined to appeal last month’s federal court order, which prohibits Texas from using SB1, a 2021 election law that illegally restricts necessary assistance to limited English-speaking and disabled voters at the polls. Secured by the Asian American Lega...
NEW YORK — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) issued the below statement on the swearing in of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court.
“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson brings tremendous experience and temperament to the highest court in our c...
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund delivered the below statement in response to the Staten Island Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Local Law 11, the Our City Our Vote law, which would have allowed more than 800,000 permanent legal residents and immigrants autho...
NEW YORK — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) issued the below statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturns Roe v. Wade.
“This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court took our country half a century backwards by reve...
For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
After 10 Years of DACA, AALDEF Joins with Undocumented Asian American Youth to Call for Citizenship for All
As we mark the 10th anniversary of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, the Asian American Legal Defense and Educati...
This week, a federal district judge ruled that the state of Texas must stop using a new election law to illegally restrict needed assistance to limited English speaking and disabled voters. The order modified a permanent injunction secured in 2018 by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fu...
Civil Rights Organizations Urge Assembly to Act, Finalize Best-in-Nation Voting Rights Reforms
As the New York legislature kicks off its final week, civil and voting rights groups applaud lawmakers in the NY Senate for voting to approve the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA), and c...
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released the below statement in response to the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
“We are horrified and saddened by the racially motivated attack targeting Black people in Buffalo, New York. Our hearts remain with the vic...
The Honorable Kathy Hochul
Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224
The Honorable Andrea Stewart-Cousins
President Pro Tempore and Majority Leader
New York State Senate
172 State Street
The Capitol, Room 330
Albany, NY 12247
The Honorable Carl E. Heastie
Speaker
New Y...
NEW YORK — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) issued the following statement in response to the passing of Secretary Norman Mineta. Secretary Mineta served as Mayor of San Jose, Representative for California’s 13th and 15th districts, and the U.S. Secretary of Transportatio...
New York, NY — At the start of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced that Bethany Li will join the staff as its new legal director. She will litigate cases that have broad impact on Asian American communities, build AAL...
Hate crimes and incidents against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community raise a host of legal, ethical, linguistic, and cultural issues for lawyers deciding whether, how, and to what extent to get involved. Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) Co-Pre...
Part of national multicultural campaign to increase citizenship among eligible immigrants
WHAT: National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), in partnership with the Service Employment International Union (SEIU), New York Immigration Coalition, Chinese Progressive Association, Asian American Legal...
