Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
As part of our mission to defend every American’s right to vote, LDF has been closely monitoring the Administration’s Election Integrity Commission, which is tasked with investigating the president’s unfounded claims of voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election. We will continue to monitor the commission’s activities and take action where needed to prevent voter […]
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 | news
Note: Click here to review a running, and still growing, list of state, county, and local level responses to the decision, including jurisdictions’ intentions to implement new discriminatory voting changes in the wake of the decision. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is closely monitoring how states and localities that were formerly covered by Section […]
Monday, March 9, 2015 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill Writes Op-Ed in The Bellingham Herald, Miami Herald, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch “… it is ironic that as Selma is commemorated this month, the Voting Rights Act lies critically wounded by a 2013 Supreme Court decision and that an effort to fix that damage cannot even get a hearing in Congress. Although the […]
Wednesday, July 3, 2013 | news
This week marks what would have been the 105th birthday of LDF founder Thurgood Marshall. He was LDF’s first President and Director-Counsel and led the organization through some of its most important seminal cases. Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, William Marshall, the grandson of a slave, worked […]
Sunday, April 30, 2017 | news
Today marks the 31st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Batson v. Kentucky, a landmark ruling that declared the exclusion of jurors on the basis of race to be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Batson created a new legal standard in the United States, and it represented a significant expansion […]
Thursday, May 16, 2024 | news
(Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Legal Defense Fund announced a slate of events and offerings to mark the 70th anniversary of the consolidated legal case it led and won, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The landmark victory to end state-sanctioned segregation in America occurred only after a hard-fought, multi-year campaign conceived by Charles Hamilton Houston and executed […]
Monday, March 18, 2013 | news
Fifty years ago, on March 18, 1963, the United States Supreme Court decided the landmark case Gideon v. Wainwright, which vindicated the rights guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and required states to provide defense counsel to individuals accused of serious crimes and unable to afford a lawyer. As the Court observed in Gideon, “in our […]
Monday, January 7, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today submitted an open public records request with the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). The request asks for information regarding policies about and investigations into student athlete discrimination on account of race or hair and stems from an incident that occurred last month at […]
Thursday, July 25, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) is unequivocal in its belief that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment and its administration is rife with errors that violate the 8th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution. Though many states have reached the same conclusion, the US Department of Justice announced today that […]
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | news
Today (March 20, 2013) at 1:00pm EDT, please join Christina Swarns, Director of LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, for a live chat with Ed Pilkington of The Guardian discussing the Texas death penalty case of Duane Buck, who was sentenced to death after his jury was told he would pose a future danger because he is […]
