Friday, July 26, 2013 | news
Jin Hee Lee, Senior Counsel in LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, writes in a blog for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty about how the Trayvon Martin tragedy is related to the racial discrimination in our capital punishment system.
Monday, December 7, 2015 | news
Jin Hee Lee, LDF’s Deputy Director of Litigation, authored an opinion for CNN.com on the Fisher case before the Supreme Court of the United States this week. “Race matters. That is as true today as ever before, especially when it comes to higher education. … Because ‘race matters,’ racial diversity must be an integral part of higher […]
Thursday, October 17, 2019 | news
Securing, advancing, and protecting the rights of Black voters and other communities of color has been a cornerstone of LDF’s work since it was founded in 1940 by Thurgood Marshall. LDF secured its first voting rights victory at the Supreme Court in 1944 in Smith v. Allwright, when it successfully challenged a Texas state law […]
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 | case-update
LDF attorneys Debo Adegbile, Associate Director-Counsel and Director of Litigation, and Joshua Civin, Assistant Counsel for the Economic Justice and Education Practice Groups, coauthored an issue brief for the American Constitution Society examining the effect of the recent Supreme Court decisions in Iqbal and Twombly on civil rights cases. The issue brief draws upon the testimony given last year by LDF President and […]
Thursday, June 23, 2011 | case-update
A coalition of community and advocacy organizations hosts a press conference at the School Discipline Code Hearing this week. Rachel Kleinman, Leticia Smith-Evans, and Matthew Cregor, attorneys from the Education Practice Group, will be testifying before government officials on some of the most critical issues in elementary, secondary and higher education.
Thursday, April 4, 2013 | case-update
On April 1, 2013, LDF Assistant Counsel, Leah Aden, submitted testimony to the Connecticut Legislature’s Joint Committee on Judiciary in support of HB 6679, which would end prison-based gerrymandering in the state and bring Connecticut’s redistricting process in line with basic principles of democracy. Specifically, HB 6679 calls for incarcerated people to be counted at their home addresses for redistricting […]
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 | news
On Free Speech Radio News, LDF attorney Leah Aden commented on the Alabama redistricting case pending before the Supreme Court, noting that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act did not require Alabama to maintain exact percentages of Black voters in legislative districts to preserve Black voters’ ability to elect their preferred candidates of choice. Aden […]
Thursday, August 13, 2015 | news
In Interventions on the 50th anniversaries of events in the American Civil Rights Movement, LDF attorney Leah Aden contributes a piece titled “The right to vote is under seige.” Aden’s essay focuses on the erection of additional obstacles to the participation of voters of color, including new stringent voter identification laws in the wake of the Shelby County, […]
Monday, April 1, 2013 | news
This morning, LDF Attorney Christina Swarns discussed the death penalty case of LDF client, Duane Buck, with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! You can watch Ms. Swarns explain how racial bias and stereotype — including the trial prosecutor’s reliance on evidence suggesting that Mr. Buck’s race made him more likely to be a future danger — render Mr. Buck’s death […]
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 | news
Cara McClellan, LDF Skadden Fellow discusses our lawsuit against the Binghamton School District for the unlawful strip search of 4 black and brown girls on HLN.
