Monday, December 28, 2015 | news
“The failure to indict in this case compounds the tragic loss of Tamir Rice with grave injustice,” said Janai Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Associate Director-Counsel. Today, a grand jury failed to charge Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback for the shooting death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy playing with a toy pellet […]
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 | news
Today, President Barack Obama nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. If confirmed, Judge Garland will assume the seat left vacant by the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2016. The […]
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 | news
(Washington, DC) – Today, President Barack Obama nominated Elena Kagan, Solicitor General, to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the United States Supreme Court. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), congratulates Ms. Kagan on her nomination and calls upon the Senate to consider the nomination expeditiously. John Payton, President and Director-Counsel of LDF, […]
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 | news
Today, Katurah Topps, Policy Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding the New York State Legislature’s vote to fully repeal Section 50-a of New York’s civil rights law, which allowed police departments across the state to conceal officer disciplinary and misconduct records from the public: “We […]
Friday, February 12, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) believes that justice was served in the trial of former New York City Police Officer (NYPD) Peter Liang, who was convicted of one count of manslaughter and one count of official misconduct for the killing of Mr. Akai Gurley, an unarmed African American. Liang’s conviction is […]
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. has described the video showing a Chicago police officer shooting 17 year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014 as yet another appalling example of a police officer demonstrating a callous disregard for the life of a young African American man. The video shows the officer shooting McDonald who is […]
Sunday, June 14, 2020 | news
Today, Janai Nelson, the Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding the killing of Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta Police: “Mr. Brooks’ killing by Atlanta police represents yet another tragic and senseless loss of a Black person’s life at the hands of law enforcement. We are deeply concerned by the […]
Tuesday, August 8, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. LDF Statement on the Justice Department’s New Interpretation of Federal Voting Rights Law Last night, the Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted an amicus brief in the Supreme Court arguing that states are legally allowed to purge eligible voters from the rolls simply because they did not cast a ballot […]
Monday, July 13, 2020 | news
Today, Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) issued the following statement regarding poll worker mask usage and polling place safety precautions following Louisiana’s primary election: “During Louisiana’s primary election over the weekend, we witnessed many concerning issues that posed a threat to voters’ health and safety amid […]
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 | news
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the FIRST STEP Act. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined more than 70 organizations in opposing the bill because it does little to reform prisons or the federal justice system. Todd A. Cox, LDF’s Policy Director, issued the following statement: “Time and again, we have raised substantive concerns about the FIRST STEP Act, which leaves the fate of the […]
