Friday, April 27, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Veasey vs Abbott Today, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Texas’ current photo voter ID law, S.B. 5, sufficiently remedies discrimination against Black and Latino voters. The decision reverses a lower court order that blocked Texas from enforcing that law and an earlier iteration of it. “We are disappointed in […]
Friday, July 17, 2015 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joins family, friends and people across the country and the world in remembering Eric Garner, a Staten Island father of six, who was killed one year ago by a vicious chokehold administered by New York City Police Department Officer, Daniel Pantaleo. This horrifying act of […]
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) strongly supports the Voting Rights Advancement Act (the Advancement Act), introduced today in the Senate and the House. The bill represents a welcome effort by Members of Congress to restore critical voting rights protections in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision that gutted a key […]
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 | news
Monique Dixon, Deputy Director of Policy and Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to the conviction of the former Balch Springs, Texas police officer for the 2017 murder of Jordan Edwards: “With the conviction of Officer Roy Oliver, something all too rare has […]
Thursday, August 31, 2017 | news
LDF Director of Policy Todd Cox issued the following statement in response to the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing scheduled for September 6, 2017. For this single hearing, Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has listed five nominees, including two circuit court nominees, two district court nominees, and the nominee to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil […]
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 | news
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) honors the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Area who continue to work to reclaim and revitalize their communities, as well as those who have been permanently displaced and forced to rebuild their lives elsewhere. While Hurricane Katrina devastated communities […]
Friday, August 27, 2010 | news
(New York) – “Today, we honor the memory of those whose lives were lost during and after Hurricane Katrina, and stand steadfastly beside those who continue their struggle to reclaim and revitalize their communities. Though a half decade has passed, there is much more to do to support restoration and renewal in the Gulf, even […]
Monday, August 22, 2016 | news
LDF Submits Comments to CFPB on Critical Proposed RuleRegarding Forced Arbitration and Class Action Waivers LDF has a long history of using class-action litigation to fight racial discrimination in housing, employment, lending, and other areas of the economy. As more and more companies have required consumers and employees to agree to arbitration agreements and class action […]
Monday, March 11, 2013 | news
On March 8, LDF Special Counsel, Debo Adegbile, talked with The Cycle hosts on MSNBC about Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, the current challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. According to Mr. Adegbile, Section 5, the heart of the Voting Rights Act, helps ensure a more inclusive democracy. With Mr. Adegbile defending […]
Monday, March 4, 2013 | news
From Selma, Alabama, NAACP LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile appears on CNN to explain how the Voting Rights Act remains a necessary tool to remedy over a century of voting discrimination, and “captures what is best in America”—the ability of all to participate in the political process. The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering Shelby […]
