Civil rights groups Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC (Advancing Justice-AAJC), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and LatinoJustice PRLDEF, together with law firm Arnold & Porter, filed a motion to submit an amicus brief in support of equitable access to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) in the case Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board.

We filed an amicus brief in Farhane v. United States. In Farhane, the Second Circuit will determine whether a criminal defense attorney’s failure to advise a naturalized U.S. citizen of the denaturalization and deportation consequences of a guilty plea constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment.

Background:

Advancing Justice - AAJC and MALDEF asked a federal court to prevent the Trump Administration from ending the 2020 Census count more than a month early.  Download the Temporary Restraining Order to read more. 

Since at least 2017, Defendants have sought, through a series of policy changes, to deprive Latinos, Asian Americans and immigrants of political representation by manipulating the manner in which Census Bureau data is collected and used. To that end, Defendants have brazenly—and repeatedly—violated fundamental Constitutional commands requiring that all

We filed an amicus brief in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard to protect Harvard’s freedom to consider race in admissions to the full extent allowed by law. Harvard’s undergraduate admissions process is unquestionably consistent with the commands of the Supreme Court’s framework for evaluating raceconscious higher education admissions.

On January 23, 2020, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the National Women's Law Center were joined by other amici in amicus briefs in three separate cases against the Department of Homeland Security's harmful public charge rule. The cases are as follows: