Thursday, January 23, 2025 | news
This week, President Trump issued a sweeping series of pardons and commutations to roughly 1,500 individuals who participated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. This misuse of clemency powers includes leaders of anti-government groups with white nationalist ties: Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, and Stewart Rhodes, the […]
Thursday, November 12, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educations Fund, Inc. (LDF) strongly supports the bipartisan, bicameral legislative package on water rights introduced by Michigan legislators today. These bills would establish sanitary and affordable water as a human right and reform the process for terminating water service to ensure proper due process is given to all customers. The […]
Thursday, June 23, 2016 | news
Democracy Diminished The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) observes the three-year anniversary of the Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder decision while preparing for the first presidential election in more than 50 years without the full force of the Voting Rights Act. In our briefing and oral argument to the Supreme Court in […]
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) urged the Louisiana State Legislature to adopt House Bill 582 which would provide all voters an equal opportunity to elect judges of their choice by creating a fair election system for the Thirty-Second Judicial District in Terrebonne Parish. The current at-large system denies African-American voters, […]
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | news
The U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia is the second most important court in the country. It has special jurisdiction for reviewing the actions of federal agencies. Additionally, under the Voting Rights Act, one of its members is required to sit on three-judge panels that decide whether to preclear voting changes by jurisdictions […]
Friday, April 15, 2016 | news
After several months of closed-door negotiations, the City of Ferguson and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) entered into a consent decree to address Ferguson’s racially-biased and predatory policing and municipal court practices. Ferguson residents, however, have not been meaningfully involved in the negotiations process that led to this agreement, which will directly impact them. […]
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 | case-update
On June 28, 2016, LDF and the Legal Aid Society provided joint testimony to New York City Council’s Committee on Oversight and Investigations, regarding proposed bill 119-C. Proposed bill 119-C is a local law to amend the New York City Administrative Code and the New York City Charter to require the collection and evaluation of civil actions, […]
Thursday, November 30, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Provides Input on Independent Monitor’s Priorities for First Year of Implementing Policing Reform Agreement in Baltimore Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Baltimore officials, and the independent monitor overseeing the January 2017 policing reform […]
Monday, July 17, 2017 | news
LDF Provides Feedback on Monitor Candidates in Baltimore Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) offering input on the selection of an independent monitor who will oversee the implementation of the January 2017 consent decree between DOJ and Baltimore city officials aimed […]
Thursday, January 24, 2019 | news
Ahead of today’s court status hearing in the case involving the policing reform agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted comments on the court’s independent monitor’s Draft Second-Year Monitoring Plan. Our feedback included specific recommendations for improving the distribution of […]
