I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Some of the rights conferred to married couples are available to unmarried couples — for a price. Meanwhile, others are simply impossible to acquire.
Those two assertions come from a financial impact report released by American Civil Liberties…
The Republican Party of New Mexico said Tuesday that it was standing by a poll it commissioned that included misstatements about domestic partnerships.
One group in favor of domestic partnership legislation has taken a creative route in advocating for the legislation in New Mexico.
The state Senate is expected to take up domestic-partnership legislation this week, possibly as early as Wednesday morning most likely Thursday morning. Join the New Mexico Independent and The Santa Fe Reporter as we co-host a live…
The vote may come in the State Senate as early as Monday, and supporters and opponents alike say that while they’re hopeful they’ll emerge victorious, nothing is certain.
The American Civil Liberties Union plans to lobby the Legislature to pass a law that would guard against collecting information on Americans lawfully protesting government policies. The effort comes as authorities in some jurisdictions appear to be crossing the blurry line between protecting civil rights and ensuring national security.
Nobody thought Democrat Karen Giannini was going to win her Northeast Heights Albuquerque race. Nobody. Justine Fox-Young, considered by many a Republican rising star, was sitting pretty in a so-called “safe” Republican seat. But somehow, an Air-Force veteran and divorced mother of three defied the odds and rode a Democratic wave to a new gig in Santa Fe — and without spending a dime. No one was more surprised than the candidate herself. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding?’ All I could think was: ‘Boy, Justine is really going to be upset. If she finds out what I did — or didn’t do — she’s gonna have conniptions.”
US District Judge William P. Johnson declined today to issue a restraining order against GOP attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero, but the voter intimidation case continues.
After moving courtrooms and switching judges several times Monday, US District Judge William P. Johnson heard arguments in a case brought against GOP attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). Several interesting…
An attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice met with a staff attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today regarding reports of voter intimidation here, said a spokesperson for ACLU.
ACORN, the organization that has become a favorite whipping boy of Republicans from Sen. John McCain down to state Rep. Justine Fox-Young, today launched an attack against McCain and voter intimidation, releasing a poignant 30-second ad. Entitled “Not This Time,” the ad ties McCain to the history of voter intimidation of blacks.
As NMI reported Monday, The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has filed a lawsuit against NM State Rep. Justine Fox Young, Al Romero and as-yet-unnamed members of the state Republican party. Fox-Young was the one who released…
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today filed a lawsuit against a Republican state lawmaker who released confidential information while making claims of vote fraud, a private investigator hired by a prominent Republican attorney, and as yet unnamed members of the state party. The lawsuit alleges that key members of the Republican Party of New Mexico violated the privacy rights of voters and illegally interfered with their right to vote.
This just in: The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has announced a press conference this morning at which it will discuss a lawsuit it filed this morning. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Project Vote also filed suit today. New Mexico State Senator Justine Fox-Young, Republican Party attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero are all named in the suits.
The government watchdog group Common Cause New Mexico on Wednesday questioned the claims of voter fraud made last week by state Republicans. In a press release, the nonpartisan, nonprofit government watchdog group said it “concluded that recent assertions regarding ‘undeniable proof that there was voter fraud in the June election’ are simply inaccurate. Contrary to the claims of a Republican spokesperson, the copies of registration forms that the party released to the media last week do not constitute clear evidence of ‘voter fraud in the 2008 primary in Albuquerque.’”
New Mexico Republican leaders claimed they had evidence of actual voter fraud and presented a sheaf of voter registration forms as evidence, saying that many registrants had the same Social Security numbers. Now the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has asked the state attorney general to initiate a criminal investigation into whether the Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office may have released confidential information to the Republican Party of New Mexico, and whether the Party then publicly distributed that information in violation of state laws.
