Thursday, April 10, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) urges the U.S. Senate to reject the misleadingly entitled “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act”, a disastrous, discriminatory, inefficient, and unnecessary bill passed by the House that would disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and upend Congress’ historic role of protecting the freedom to vote rather than suppressing it. The […]
Thursday, December 4, 2014 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund roundly condemns the non-indictment of Staten Island police officer Daniel Pantaleo. In a horrifying display of police brutality, captured on video, Officer Pantaleo choked Eric Garner to death while trying to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. The vicious act was captured on videotape as onlookers, including […]
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | news
Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it would be moving to dismiss two consent decrees in connection with court oversight of law enforcement agencies in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Louisville, Kentucky. These consent decrees aimed to remedy widespread constitutional violations that were uncovered after extensive DOJ investigations following the police killings of George Floyd and […]
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | news
Today, the House of Representatives’ Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce held a hearing that purported to investigate the use of federal funds by nonprofit organizations. In reality, it was a politically motivated spectacle filled with falsehoods and baseless attacks on civil society. In response, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Director-Counsel Janai S. […]
Saturday, February 2, 2019 | news
News reports indicate that over a thousand inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, have been living without adequate heat, hot water, and electricity in their cells. It also appears that the power outages have prevented inmates from communicating with relatives and placing requests for prescription refills. Samuel Spital, Director of Litigation […]
Thursday, November 19, 2020 | news
On November 3, 2020, 15 year-old Quawan “Bobby” Charles was found dead in a sugarcane field in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, four days after his family reported him missing. According to Quawan’s family and other local accounts, police never issued a Level II Endangered/Missing Child Advisory, which would have notified media statewide of Quawan’s disappearance, and […]
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | news
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit heard oral arguments in the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard. Jin Hee Lee, Senior Deputy Director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) delivered the oral argument on behalf of the 26 Harvard student and alumni organizations […]
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 | news
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) Senior Counsel Alexis Hoag argued today before the Ohio Supreme Court that Glen Bates’ trial counsel failed to protect his constitutional right to an impartial jury by allowing an individual who expressed unequivocal racial bias against Black people to serve on the jury that convicted and sentenced […]
Thursday, April 30, 2009 | case-update
(New York, NY) – On April 29th, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) defended the Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational, Inc. (LDF) defends before the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals its trial court win against SB 14, Texas’s intentionally discriminatory voter ID law and the strictest voter ID law in the nation. This week’s oral argument in the appellate court in Veasey v. Perry follows LDF’s October […]
