Wednesday, September 22, 2021 | news
This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined an amicus brief filed by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a major abortion rights and abortion access case the Supreme Court will hear next […]
Monday, October 24, 2016 | news
On October 20, 2016, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality (Korematsu Center), 18 other bar associations and non-profit organizations, and 32 law school professors in filing an amicus brief with the New York Court of Appeals, urging the Court to recognize that excluding an individual […]
Thursday, July 24, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the Barbara Jordan Leadership Institute, and the Houston Area Urban League submitted testimony to both the Texas House and Senate Committees on Congressional Redistricting on the mid-decade congressional redistricting that the special session of the 89th Texas Legislature is considering. The testimony […]
Friday, February 27, 2015 | case-update
Today, the House of Representatives will vote on final passage of the Student Success Act, H.R. 5, the Republican bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). LDF lends its support to Ranking Member Bobby Scott’s Democratic Substitute Amendment (the “Scott Amendment”). The Scott Amendment addresses many core needs for our nation’s education system, including […]
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 | news
Last night, the United States Senate unanimously passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, completing a more than 100-year-long, multi-generational campaign to enlist the significant powers of the federal government against a distinctly American form of violence and terror rooted in anti-Black racism. The bill has already been passed in the House of Representatives and now […]
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 | news
This evening, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson issued the following statement concerning the national crisis of gun violence in the United States: “LDF mourns and grieves with the community of Uvalde, Texas, following the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School yesterday by an 18-year-old male who was able to […]
Wednesday, November 24, 2021 | news
Yesterday, despite the growing threats to constitutional democracy in the United States and the waning amount of time left for the Congress to address threats to voting rights through legislation, both chambers of the U.S. Congress began a planned week-long recess. In response, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, […]
Monday, July 6, 2020 | news
Today, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) Sherrilyn Ifill released the following statement on the increase in vehicle-ramming attacks against protesters and the lack of federal action: “In the aftermath of yet another vehicle-ramming attack on peaceful protesters that resulted in the death of Summer Taylor, LDF renews […]
Thursday, November 17, 2022 | news
Today, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announced that she will step down from House leadership when the 118th Congress begins its term in January 2023. Speaker Pelosi will continue to serve in the House as the elected representative for the 12th Congressional District of California. LDF President and Director-Counsel Janai S. […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2022 | news
In recent days, the water system in Jackson, Mississippi, has reached its breaking point. A system that has long been in a state of crisis – including an active boil water order for residents since mid-July – has now failed and left residents, businesses, and schools without the necessity of reliable running water. In response […]
