Saturday, March 22, 2025 | news
Yesterday, the White House sent a memo to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem directing the Department of Justice to pursue sanctions against lawyers and law firms that pursue what the Trump administration deems “unreasonable” or “frivolous” litigation against the federal government. Today, a group of 22 civil […]
Monday, January 12, 2015 | news
Washington – Today, nearly 20 civil rights groups and education advocates released shared civil rights principles for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). In the principles, the groups highlight the important and historic role the federal government has played during the 50 years since the ESEA was originally passed in promoting […]
Friday, January 2, 2015 | case-update
Washington – Today, nearly 20 civil rights groups and education advocates released shared civil rights principles for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). In the principles, the groups highlight the important and historic role the federal government has played during the 50 years since the ESEA was originally passed in promoting […]
Friday, February 28, 2020 | ldf-at-work
Thursday, September 23, 2021 | page
National Urban League v. Trump Important Facts About LDF’s Case Challenging the Trump Truth Ban and efforts to protect truth On October 29, 2020, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a federal lawsuit challenging then President Trump’s “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping” (EO 13950) that prohibited speech, activities, and workplace […]
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | case-issue
Case: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion National Urban League v. Trump Challenging President Trump’s Anti-DEI Executive Orders and Defending Against Intolerance and Erasure Filed: February 19, 2025 What’s at stake? National Urban League v. Trump is a federal lawsuit challenging two anti-equity executive orders and one anti-gender executive order from President Trump related to diversity, equity, inclusion, […]
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | case-issue
Monday, May 4, 2020 | news
Washington, D.C.— Forty pro-democracy and civil rights groups today joined in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, urging them to halt the process of federal judicial nominations and confirmations at this time. The groups are members of the Fair Courts Task Force of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human […]
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 | news
A national resolution protesting high-stakes standardized testing was released Tuesday by a coalition of national education, civil rights and parents groups, as well as educators who are trying to build a broad-based movement against the Obama administration’s test-centric school reform program. This is the latest in a series of recent initiatives taken around the country […]
Thursday, November 3, 2011 | news
Yesterday was the official dedication of the Martin Luther King Memorial here in Washington. Some of you may have snuck away from this conference to be there. I was there. It was inspiring because the moral commitment of the civil rights movement is now center stage in at least part of our national culture. But […]
