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LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile and Assistant Counsel Dale Ho Appear on Up w/ Chris Hayes to Discuss the Current Challenge to the Voting Rights Act

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | news

NAACP LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile and Assistant Counsel Dale Ho recently appeared on Up w/ Chris Hayes to discuss the current challenge to the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. With Mr. Adegbile defending the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act on behalf of six African-American voters, the U.S. Supreme Court […]

LDF Sounds Alarm on Trump Administration’s Attempt to Reinvigorate Pseudo-Scientific Racism and Erase Black People from American History

Saturday, March 29, 2025 | news

On March 27, President Donald Trump released an executive order, misnamed “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which advances pseudo-scientific ideas on race, and attacks funding for programs and institutions that preserve and steward our country’s history. Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, issued the following statement in response to […]

LDF Signs on to Letter Urging TX Governor Greg Abbott to Use Emergency Powers to Protect Voting Rights

Tuesday, August 25, 2020 | news

Dear Governor Abbott, We are civil rights organizations that work directly with voters across this state and advocate for a free and fair democracy in Texas. We write regarding the recent admission by the United States Postal Service (“Postal Service”) that it cannot guarantee delivery of voters’ mail-in ballots within the timeframe mandated under Texas […]

LDF Shows How Law Enforcement’s Use of Advanced Technologies Contribute to Discriminatory Policing in Letter to the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security

Friday, January 19, 2024 | news

Today, LDF submitted comments to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in response to the request from the Justice Department and Department of home HS for public input regarding law enforcement agencies use of facial recognition technology; fingerprint and iris biometric technologies; DNA biometric technologies, including familial searching, probabilistic genotyping software, […]

LDF Shares Comments Opposing Census Bureau’s Decision to Add a Citizenship Status

Wednesday, August 8, 2018 | news

Comments on 2020 Census, Including Proposed Information Collection   The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), our country’s first and foremost civil rights and racial justice organization, appreciates the opportunity to provide comments in response to the June 2018 Federal Register notice (the Notice). Since its founding in 1940, one of LDF’s core […]

LDF Serves Information Request on Manhattan DA for Materials Related to Gang Policing Databases

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 | news

Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign   Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) served a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request on the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (NYDA) to gather information about New Yorkers’ inclusion in NYDA’s gang database(s). This request follows LDF and the Center for Constitutional Rights’ recent FOIL requests seeking information about […]

LDF Senior Counsel Michaele Turnage Young Discusses College Admissions Scandal on MSNBC

Saturday, March 16, 2019 | news

LDF Senior Counsel, Michaele Turnage Young joins MSNBC Live with Kendis Gibson to discuss the college admissions scandal and how it impacts students of color.

LDF Senior Counsel Leah Aden on Texas Voter ID Law in Texas Tribune

Friday, November 18, 2016 | news

Five years ago, Texas passed one of the strictest Voter ID laws in the country. The legal fight began immediately and has continued through this day, with critics of the law getting some assistance from the Obama administration’s Justice Department. Now, with Republican Donald Trump set to ascend to the Oval Office, the law’s future […]

LDF Senior Counsel Leah Aden Issues Statement Regarding SC NAACP v. Alexander – State Elected Leaders’ Request to Use Congressional Map Deemed Unconstitutional  

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | news

“South Carolina officials requested to lift a federal court order that prohibits the State from using a racially gerrymandered congressional map for the November 2024 elections in Congressional District 1. If these officials had their way, they would conduct elections in South Carolina for the second election cycle under an unconstitutional congressional map. The Legal Defense […]

LDF Senior Counsel Leah Aden Discusses Minority Judgeship Lawsuit in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

Sunday, March 12, 2017 | news

“If you look at the 23rd Judicial District or the 16th Judicial District, they all have districts like the one we’re trying to achieve, which is a district where black voters are the majority,” said Leah Aden, attorney for the New York-based NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which is representing the local NAACP chapter in the […]

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