Thursday, May 30, 2019 | news
New Hampshire’s Senate voted today to repeal the death penalty, joining the House in overriding Governor Chris Sununu’s veto to become the 21st state in the country to end capital punishment. The bill will not be applied retroactively, leaving the fate of Michael Addison – a Black man and the only person on death row […]
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | case-issue
Case: Immigration New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support v. Donald J. Trump Protecting Birthright Citizenship Filed: Jan. 20, 2025 Case Details On Jan. 20, 2025, a group of immigrants’ rights advocates filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order (EO) that interprets of Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to eliminate birthright citizenship to […]
Thursday, May 30, 2019 | news
Today, along with millions of others, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) learned damning information about the political and racially discriminatory motives behind the push to add a citizenship status question to the 2020 census. Materials uncovered from a deceased Republican strategist reveal exactly what LDF stated in its March 15, 2019 letter […]
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP (O&G), and Youth Represent (YR) filed a lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York against Macy’s, Inc. (Macy’s), challenging its use of an unnecessarily punitive criminal history screening policy. According to the lawsuit, the policy disproportionately […]
Monday, April 26, 2021 | news
Today, 30 local, state-based, and national organizations announced the formation of the PASCO Coalition: People Against the Surveillance of Children and Overpolicing to call on the Pasco County School District to stop its practice of illegally sharing confidential student information with the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. This program provides confidential student data to law enforcement […]
Thursday, June 19, 2014 | news
Stop-and-Frisk. Voter ID laws. Jim Crow Redux. Reparations. 2014 has more similarities to 1964 than we care to admit. We can’t forge ahead without looking back at a nation birthed in genocide and slavery, and marked by state-sponsored terrorism, debt peonage, lynchings, and redlining. How can we confront this history as a way forward? What […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 | ldf-perspectives
Neomi Rao Showed Us Who She Was in College – Believe Her By Todd A. Cox, Policy Director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Given the sexual assault allegations that dominated Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, it’s not surprising that the conversation surrounding the woman nominated to replace him on the D.C. […]
Monday, July 7, 2014 | news
In Reuters “The Great Debate,” Janai Nelson, LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel, argues “swift and dauntless action is needed in both houses of Congress, however, to ensure that voting remains an equal opportunity exercise for all Americans, and that Congress remains a relevant force in the defense of voting rights in places like Mississippi, Texas, Georgia and […]
Monday, November 17, 2014 | news
Janai Nelson on the Supreme Court’s consideration of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) case before it: “There are already 20 million people that have registered for health care under the ACA, and so to reverse course at this point and say that these federal subsidies cannot support those federal exchanges would be a great harm […]
Friday, October 3, 2014 | news
LDF’s Janai Nelson, along with former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal and other legal scholars previewed the 2014-2015 Supreme Court term. Among the cases they discussed were racial gerrymandering of congressional districts (also discussed in The National Law Journal,) threatening statements on Facebook, whistleblower protections, and the religious liberty of prisoners. The panelists also briefly reviewed cases […]
