Wednesday, January 20, 2021 | news
Today, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding the inauguration of the Biden-Harris administration: “Today, we witnessed the completion of a most critical rite of our democracy — the formal transition of power to the leaders chosen by the American people to […]
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | news
Today, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass a comprehensive COVID-19 relief package, which now awaits President Joe Biden’s signature. Some of the key items included in this legislation are as follows: $1,400 direct stimulus payments. Extends the 15% increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits through Sept. 30, 2021. Extends the Pandemic […]
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 | news
Today, the United States House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection. The charge is pursuant to the president’s role in encouraging a coup attempt by white supremacist groups and Trump supporters at the United States Capitol leading up to and during the certification of electoral votes on Jan. 6, […]
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | news
Today, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 (H.R. 1280). The bill now moves onto the United States Senate. In reaction to the vote, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement: “For the second […]
Tuesday, August 24, 2021 | news
Today, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, an urgently needed measure that would help protect the right to vote. Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) issued the following statement in response: “We applaud the House of […]
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | news
Today, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the voting rights and election reform bill, H.R. 1 (the “For the People Act”). Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) issued the following statement in response to the vote: “We commend the House of Representatives for […]
Thursday, January 20, 2022 | news
Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Holly Thomas as a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In response to Judge Thomas’s confirmation, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement: “We […]
Thursday, January 21, 2021 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding the swearing in of Senators Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff, and Alex Padilla by Vice President Kamala Harris. “Yesterday, we witnessed a momentous occasion in the chamber of the United States Senate. Vice President Kamala Harris, […]
Thursday, January 27, 2022 | news
On behalf of lead plaintiff, Elizabeth Horton Sheff, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Center for Children’s Advocacy (CCA), the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, and Horton, Dowd, Bartschi & Levesque, PC announced today that a final settlement agreement has been reached in Sheff […]
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 | news
In response to the Georgia runoff election results, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill released the following statement: “LDF extends congratulations to Senator-elect Rev. Raphael Warnock on his historic election to the United States Senate. The election of the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther […]
