Monday, August 10, 2020 | ldf-perspectives
Online Voter Registration: Good for States, Good for Voters August 11, 2020 Availability of Online Voter Registration Has Grown Significantly Since its 2002 Inception In 49 states and the District of Columbia, citizens who are eligible to vote must register with the state before they can vote.1 Traditionally, voters were required to register by submitting […]
Thursday, January 8, 2015 | news
Today commemorates the one-year anniversary of the issuance of historic Joint Guidance on School Discipline by the Departments of Education and Justice (see Secretary Duncan’s Dear Colleague Letter on the Nondiscriminatory Administration of School Discipline). The historic guidance recognizes the impact of discriminatory discipline practices, which are disproportionately pushing students of color out of school, […]
Thursday, January 27, 2011 | news
Fifteen years ago, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit flouted Supreme Court law when it struck down affirmative action at the University of Texas Law School. Last week, in an act of redemption, the appellate court upheld an admissions plan for undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin that takes […]
Monday, August 18, 2014 | news
(New York, NY)—Just 24 hours after the ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law jointly issued a statement criticizing the curfew in Ferguson, Missouri as unconstitutional and calling for a de-escalation of the militarized response to civil unrest, Gov. Jay Nixon has suspended the city’s curfew. By […]
Monday, October 5, 2015 | news
October 17 Update: Alabama Governor Offers Partial Fix for Driver’s License Office Closures After Pressure from Voting Rights Advocates (Washington, DC) – After three weeks of pressure on Alabama Governor Robert Bentley over his announced closing of 31 driver’s license offices that issue the most common form of photo IDs needed to vote under Alabama […]
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 | page
On the Shelf and Screen Book, television, film and podcast recommendations from Janai Nelson, LDF’s 8th President and Director-Counsel To Read Civil Rights Queen Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality By Tomiko Brown-Nagin Constance Baker Motley has finally received her biographic due in this comprehensive, insightful, and sweeping book by civil Rights and […]
Thursday, June 25, 2015 | news
Sen. Scott: Nation’s future has been changed Republican South Carolina Senator Tim Scott gave an emotional speech on the senate floor as he remembered the nine victims of the Charleston massacre. Sherrilyn Ifill, the New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb, & the New Republic’s Jamil Smith join Lawrence.
Monday, January 11, 2016 | news
On the eve of President Obama’s last State of the Union Address, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) celebrates the Obama Administration’s commitment to core principles of equality over the past seven years. We also applaud the administration’s efforts to advance civil rights through legislation, executive orders, targeted agency regulations, and public […]
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | news
Fifty years ago today, in Furman v. Georgia, a case successfully litigated by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Supreme Court held the death penalty as administered in the United States violated the Constitution’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. While the ruling was ultimately superseded four years later through a series of decisions that reestablished capital […]
Friday, September 26, 2014 | news
Last night, Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show where she discussed Attorney General Holder’s extraordinary civil rights legacy. “When Attorney General Holder took the helm of the Department of Justice in 2009, he vowed to make the Civil Rights division the department’s ‘crown jewel,’ and he has more than fulfilled that mission,” said […]
