Wednesday, November 9, 2016 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) was on the ground in Alabama on this Election Day engaging in nonpartisan election protection work as part of LDF’s annual Prepared to Vote Campaign. Prepared to Vote is designed to protect the right of African Americans and other voters […]
Friday, March 3, 2017 | news
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Participates in Historic Selma March Anniversary Events, Calls for Renewed Attention to Challenging Discriminatory Voting Laws The national conversation around voting rights and the Trump administration’s unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud are at a fever pitch as we honor the 52nd anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the historic Selma-to-Montgomery March. That […]
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 | news
Donald Trump has only been in office for 100 days, but in that brief time his administration has shown an alarming hostility to civil rights and the rule of law. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have tried to roll back hard-won civil rights protections, using false claims about violent crime and voter fraud to […]
Thursday, April 20, 2017 | news
Read the PDF version of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Objects to Policies and Procedures of NYPD’s Body Worn Camera Pilot Program The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today objected to the proposed policies and procedures of the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) body worn camera (BWC) pilot program. […]
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) remembers Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager whose death at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri served as the catalyst that sparked a nationwide movement against police violence in communities of color. “Our thoughts are with the family members of Michael Brown and countless […]
Friday, August 16, 2013 | news
His remarks reflect the City’s entrenched policies and practices of treating public housing residents like prisoners in their own homes In this morning’s John Gambling radio show, Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized Davis v. City of New York, a putative class action lawsuit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and co-counsel […]
Monday, October 25, 2010 | case-update
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) filed a friend-of-the-court brief challenging the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 in Perry v. Schwarzenegger. In its brief LDF argues that the principles set forth in Loving v. Virginia (in which LDF also filed an amicus brief in 1967), establish the fundamental right of any individual, including […]
Monday, March 13, 2017 | news
“Today LDF lawyers go to court in Louisiana to represent Black voters in Terrebonne Parish, who have been denied the equal opportunity to elect their preferred candidates to the 32nd JDC, a Louisiana state court that has jurisdiction over Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana,” said Leah Aden, LDF Senior Counsel. “We will argue that Louisiana must open […]
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 | case-update
Just days after the 46th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Georgia attorney Wayne Kendall filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Fayette County, Georgia’s at-large method of electing members to the County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education violates the Act. The case was […]
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 | news
Just days after the 46th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Georgia attorney Wayne Kendall filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Fayette County, Georgia’s at-large method of electing members to the County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education violates the Act. The case was […]
