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LDF Welcome New Lawyers to Our New York and Washington D.C. Offices

Caren Short, Liliana Zaragoza, Angel S. Harris, and Ajmel Quereshi. (Chris Kemmit not pictured) LDF is pleased to welcome several new impressive hires to our team this summer. Caren Short, Ajmel Quereshi, Lily Zaragoza, Angel Harris, and Chris Kemmit bring a wide range of legal expertise critical to supporting LDF’ s work. Caren E. Short […]

LDF Weighs in on Bipartisan Sentencing Reform Bill

LDF Webpage Provides Accurate Information, Updates on USPS Case

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has created a webpage to provide accurate summaries and updated information for its case against the United States Postal Service (USPS). Since Nov. 4, 2020, LDF has focused on ensuring delivery of ballots in two states: North Carolina, which has a deadline of 5 p.m. today […]

LDF Voting Rights Act 45th Anniversary Commemorative Poster

LDF Voices Concern Over American Bar Association’s Proposal to Remove Mentions of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender from Law School Accreditation Standards

This week, the Legal Defense Fund submitted comments expressing concern about the American Bar Association’s (ABA) proposal to remove all mentions of race, ethnicity, and gender from its accreditation standards for law schools. The comment urged the ABA to reverse course on its proposal, and to make clear that it remains committed to ensuring that […]

LDF Vigorously Defends Civil Rights Law of 1866 Against Comcast Attack

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), along with ten civil rights organizations, filed an amicus brief in Comcast v. National Association of African American-Owned Media and Entertainment Studios Networks, Inc., a case involving allegations of racial discrimination that has grave implications for the nation’s oldest civil rights statute. A year after the Civil […]

LDF Video Examines Extraordinary Case of Racial Bias in TX Death Penalty Case on Final Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Texas Defender Service (TDS) released a video about an extraordinary case of racial bias in the administration of the death penalty. A Broken Promise in Texas is a film about Duane Buck, an African-American man who was sentenced to death in Texas after […]

LDF Video – ‘A Broken Promise in Texas: Race, the Death Penalty and the Duane Buck Case’

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. released a new video highlighting the racial discrimination in the Texas death penalty system and the shocking case of death-sentenced prisoner, Duane Buck. Mr. Buck was sentenced to death in Harris County (Houston), Texas, after his trial prosecutor elicited testimony from a psychologist indicating that Mr. […]

LDF Vehemently Opposes the Nomination of Emil Bove for Federal Judge Position on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) vehemently opposes the nomination of Emil Bove to the 3rd Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. LDF is the nation’s oldest civil rights law organization. LDF was launched at a time when America’s aspirations for equality and due process of law were stifled by widespread state-sponsored racial inequality and […]

LDF v. Trump

On July 18, 2017, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined The Ordinary People Society, an Alabama-based community organization, in filing a federal lawsuit against the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which the President created by an executive order signed on May 11, 2017. Our complaint alleges that the Commission was […]