Tuesday, December 18, 2018 | news
UPDATE: On December 21, the Departments of Education and Justice officially rescinded the 2014 guidance package, including a Dear Colleague Letter, designed to help our nation’s schools eliminate racial disparities in school discipline while improving school climate. The rescinded documents clarified for schools and districts the legal framework that the Departments employ to analyze complaints of discrimination […]
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter urging the Senate to oppose the nomination of Kathryn Mizelle to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. This vote comes at a time when the country is facing a catastrophic health and safety crisis which should be […]
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today denounced the nomination of Harmeet Dhillon to serve as the Department of Justice’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. LDF President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement: “The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division touches the lives of nearly every American, safeguarding such fundamental rights as the […]
Friday, January 13, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced its opposition to Justice Hector LaSalle’s confirmation as Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, in advance of a committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday morning. LDF’s opposition is based on a review of Justice LaSalle’s record on New York’s intermediate appellate court, including judicial decisions […]
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 | news
House Votes to Repeal CFPB Rule that Protects Consumers from Discriminatory Lending and Predatory Financial Products Today the House of Representatives passed H.J. Res. 111, a resolution to repeal the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule banning the use of class action waivers in the arbitration clauses of consumer finance agreements. The rule prohibits […]
Thursday, September 19, 2024 | news
Today, LDF sent a letter to the Georgia State Election Board to oppose Proposed Rules 183-1-12-.02 (Tabulating Results) and 183-1-14-.02(8) (Advance Voting). The proposed rules individually and collectively would create additional administrative burdens on local election officials to conduct unnecessary vote counts, while also creating greater opportunity for mistakes during both the advance voting and […]
Monday, March 26, 2018 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the American Civil Liberties of Georgia and the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, sent a letter to the Georgia General Assembly to oppose Senate Bill 363, which, if enacted, will significantly suppress minority voter participation. If this bill is passed, Election Day voting hours in Atlanta, […]
Thursday, February 2, 2012 | case-update
LDF led a group of over three dozen civil rights, education, disability rights, and business organizations in expressing strong opposition to a draft bill that would dismantle key provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the nation’s key civil-rights-era legislation designed to bring educational opportunities to all children. Euphemistically entitled the “Student Success […]
Friday, December 15, 2023 | news
Today, LDF, Brennan Center, CCR, and ACLU sent a letter to members of Congress expressing concern about the inappropriate use of federal counterterrorism authorities by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) to target opposition to construction of a police training facility known as Cop City in Atlanta, Georgia. In July […]
Friday, June 6, 2025 | news
Today, LDF sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth categorically opposing the to the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) reported intentions to remove the names of civil and human rights icons—including Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Medgar Evers, and Harvey Milk—from vessels in the John Lewis-class […]
