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City & State featured Haub Law Professor Randolph McLaughlin in "Islip is making it easier for communities of color to be represented"
City & State featured Haub Law Professor Randolph McLaughlin in "Islip is making it easier for communities of color to be represented"
But some civil rights attorneys say what happened in Islip is likely not an isolated case. “I think there's a high likelihood that the kind of problems we saw in Islip and in Hempstead and New Rochelle and in Port Chester, are replicated all across the state,” said Randolph McLaughlin, a law professor at Pace University who was an attorney for the plaintiffs in each of these cases.
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“Sometimes the communities aren't aware of their rights. They don't know about the Voting Rights Act. If they do, they don't have the support financially to mount one of these challenges.” – Randolph McLaughlin, law professor at Pace University
