Thursday, July 3, 2025 | news
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson issued the following statement on Congress’ passage of the reconciliation bill, H.R. 1: “Congress has just passed one of the most destructive and unjust pieces of legislation in modern history. Their “Big Ugly Bill” is a deliberate assault on the most vulnerable members of our […]
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | news
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to confirm Neomi Rao to a lifetime appointment to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Todd A. Cox, Policy Director at LDF, issued the following statement: “Neomi Rao’s refusal to endorse the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education didn’t happen when she was in college […]
Thursday, May 10, 2018 | news
Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Michael Brennan to a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Brennan is one of a handful of judicial nominees expected to be confirmed to federal circuit courts this week. Todd A. Cox, Policy Director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the […]
Monday, November 21, 2022 | news
On Sunday, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five people and injured 25 others in a mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs. The horrendous attack came on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance and after an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric across the nation. He has since been charged with five […]
Monday, December 30, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today condemned the brutal killing of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death by a group of corrections officers at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York. LDF President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement: “The Legal Defense Fund condemns the sadistic and violent killing of Robert […]
Saturday, October 29, 2022 | news
Yesterday, a spokesperson for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed that an assailant broke into the Speaker’s residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted her husband, Paul Pelosi. Mr. Pelosi has since been hospitalized and is expected to make a full recovery. Later in the day, the San Francisco Police Department announced that David Depape is […]
Thursday, January 25, 2024 | news
Tonight, unless the United States Supreme Court intervenes, the state of Alabama will execute Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen gas, the first ever execution of its kind. Alabama officials will strap Mr. Smith to a gurney, affix a respirator mask to his face, and pump nitrogen gas into the mask until Mr. Smith dies due […]
Monday, September 21, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) submitted comments regarding the implementation of the Ferguson Consent Decree. It has been five years since the approval of the consent decree and much of the work remains undone. LDF is concerned that several actions taken or contemplated by Ferguson officials are inconsistent with the […]
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | news
On October 1, 2024, LDF sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin regarding the hearing “A Threat to Justice Everywhere: Stemming the Tide of Hate Crimes in America” held on September 17, 2024. The letter expressed strong concerns about the conduct of certain members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who made hateful […]
Friday, November 15, 2019 | news
RE: Comments on Baltimore Police Department’s Draft Baltimore School Police MOU Assessment Report Dear Mr. Thompson: On behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), I write to provide comments on the Baltimore Police Department’s (BPD) draft Baltimore School Police MOU Assessment Report (MOU Report or Report), which is required by the […]
