Friday, July 28, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. LDF Statement on President Trump’s Remarks Encouraging Police Brutality In a speech to law enforcement today in Long Island, New York, President Trump suggested that officers should be less protective of arrestees in their custody, effectively encouraging police brutality. Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational […]
Thursday, May 28, 2020 | news
Lisa Cylar Barrett, Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s Executive Order targeting social media by limiting their protections from legal liability: “Today’s Executive Order is yet another abuse of power by President Trump. He does not have the authority to rewrite […]
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 | news
Today, Sherrilyn Ifill, the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on Policing Reform. “This Executive Order is an attempt to quell important national momentum on comprehensive policing reform that seeks to reimagine what policing should be in our […]
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 | news
Today, Leah Aden, Deputy Director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Excluding Illegal Immigrants From the Apportionment Base:” “President Trump’s executive order seeking to bar undocumented immigrant people from being counted in the U.S. Census is wholly illegal and […]
Sunday, April 14, 2019 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), provided the following statement: “We condemn unequivocally President Trump’s distortion of the words of freshman congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) and use of 9/11 imagery to disparage her. These are dangerous times. Hate crimes have risen exponentially since 2016. Earlier […]
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 | news
LDF welcomes President Obama’s announcement of a series of actions designed to promote opportunities for successful reentry of persons impacted by the criminal justice system. These measures address many of the substantial barriers faced by persons with criminal records in seeking employment, education, housing, health care and public services, and include a range of policy […]
Monday, December 21, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds Friday’s announcement of President Barack Obama granting commutations of sentences to 95 individuals and pardons to two individuals. With Friday’s commutations, President Obama has granted a total of 184 commutations during his time in office, the most of any president since the Johnson Administration and […]
Friday, March 15, 2019 | news
A federal court yesterday denied a preliminary motion for judgment on the pleadings in a case on integrated education in Hartford, Connecticut. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) argued against the lawsuit and will continue the fight for education equity for all Hartford students. “This is only the first step in this […]
Monday, August 19, 2019 | news
Today, over five years after NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner with an illegal chokehold, Police Commissioner James O’Neill announced that Pantaleo has been fired from the Department. “For five years Eric Garner’s family has waited for some measure of accountability for his death. Today’s decision to dismiss Pantaleo is long overdue. Nevertheless, we […]
Monday, March 26, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Landmark: Brown v. Board of Education Linda Brown, who was one of the young students at the heart of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, passed away today at age 75. Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement: “Linda Brown is […]
