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LDF Highly Commends Department of Justice Policy to Eliminate Disparities Between Crack and Powder Cocaine Sentences

Today, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is instituting a new charging policy that will seek to end sentencing disparities in cases that involve crack-cocaine or powder cocaine and requires federal prosecutors to follow additional procedures before charging mandatory minimums, among other changes. In response to this policy […]

LDF Highlighted in Shelby County v. Holder Anniversary Media Coverage

Shelby County v. Holder One-Year Anniversary Media Highlights: Ifill and Montgomery are featured in Montgomery Adviser article on the Senate Judiciary Hearing  Ryan Haygood argues in the Houston Chronicle that “States must be held accountable for how they treat voters: Urge Congress to pass Voting Rights Amendment Act” Sherrilyn Ifill appears on The Joy Reid Report […]

LDF Highlighted in Fisher v. U Texas Media Coverage

Both Sides Find Reason for Optimism After Latest Ruling on Texas Affirmative Action, Diverse, Jul 17, 2014 Lower Court Upholds Affirmative Action at University of Texas at Austin, Ms. Magazine, Jul 16, 20214 Appeals Court Upholds University of Texas’s Affirmative Action Policy, BET, Jul 16, 20214 Affirmative action could be headed back to the Supreme […]

LDF Highlighted in Brown Media Coverage

An Associated Press story titled “Segregation gains ground 60 years after Brown” quotes Sherrilyn Ifill. Housing discrimination — stopping or discouraging minorities from moving to majority-white areas — also plays a role in school segregation and “that’s been a harder nut to crack,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which argued the […]

LDF Forcefully Condemns Boulder Attack

Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Associate Director-Counsel Todd A. Cox issued the following statement in response to the terror attack yesterday in Boulder targeted against members of the Jewish community. “We are heartbroken, outraged, and shaken by yesterday’s horrific attack in Boulder, where eight people – including a Holocaust survivor – were injured during a peaceful […]

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LDF Finds Disturbing Racial Disparities in North Charleston Police Department’s Complaint Process

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today issued the findings of a comprehensive review of citizen complaint reports released by the North Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department (NCPD).  After analyzing hundreds of pages of documents filed with the NCPD from 2006 through 2016, LDF found both that African Americans were more likely […]

LDF Files United States Supreme Court Cert Petition to Consider Jury Discrimination Issue in Death Penalty Case

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with co-counsel Cliff Gardner, filed a cert petition on behalf of Johnny Duane Miles in the United States Supreme Court. The petition requests that a writ of certiorari be granted to review the California Supreme Court’s judgement in People v. Miles, which rejected Miles’ jury […]

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Urging Review of Capital Case Involving Evidence of Egregious Anti-Gay Bias

Late yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review Charles Rhines’ case because there is compelling evidence that at least some of the jurors sentenced him to death in part because he is gay. The brief argues that sexual orientation discrimination must […]

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Urging Consideration of Racially-Biased Death Sentence

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision to deny Keith Tharpe the ability to appeal his racially-biased death sentence. The brief argues that the taint of racial discrimination in Tharpe’s death sentence is undeniable, and […]