Tuesday, July 22, 2014 | news
The City’s 15-Day Moratorium is Insufficient, Fails to Address Systemic Process Problems (Detroit, MI)–The city of Detroit’s fifteen-day moratorium on water shut-offs, announced yesterday nearly four months after the shut-offs began, is welcomed but inadequate relief for a city in which thousands of residents either have lost or face the continuing threat of losing […]
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Detroit Homeowners Seek Appeal to Michigan Supreme Court in Lawsuit Challenging Racially Discriminatory Tax Foreclosures Wayne County’s tax foreclosures continue to disproportionately impact African-American homeowners Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the ACLU of Michigan, and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP asked […]
Thursday, September 14, 2023 | page
Detained and Disenfranchised Overcoming Barriers to Voting from Jail By Jackie O’Neil former Research Associate, Thurgood Marshall Institute On any given day, more than 425,000 of the approximately 514,000 people locked in America’s local jails have not been convicted of the crime for which they are detained, according to a March 2023 Prison Policy Initiative […]
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 | news
A group of alumni of eight prestigious public high schools in New York City issued a statement on Tuesday in support of keeping a test as the sole criterion for entry, inserting themselves in a long-running debate over the admissions process and its impact on the schools’ racial makeup. Some legislators and civil rights groups […]
Monday, January 23, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that it is initiating a “comprehensive compliance review” of all of the Maryland Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) activities to determine whether Maryland violated federal law when it cancelled the Baltimore “Red Line,” a 14-mile light rail line that would have […]
Thursday, July 27, 2023 | news
Today, civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice organizations sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) “domestic violent extremism” label, standards for collecting and disseminating information to state and local law enforcement agencies, and the impacts this can have particularly on disparately surveilled and […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
LDF filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, on the constitutionality of the minimum essential coverage provision, which requires persons covered by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to maintain a certain level of health insurance, subject to a tax penalty. At issue […]
Thursday, June 9, 2016 | news
Bookmark this ongoing tally of states and localities’ responses to Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), released a report titled, Democracy Diminished: State and Local Threats to Voting Post-Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder (Shelby County), a detailed collection of state, county, and local voting changes — proposed or […]
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 | issue-report
Friday, March 29, 2024 | page
Democracy Defended Lessons Learned from the 2022 Midterm Elections and the Path Ahead for the 2024 Election A Model of Year-Round, Integrated Advocacy Protecting the right to vote has been a core mission of the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) since its founding in 1940. Following the 2000 elections, LDF joined with fellow civil rights organizations […]
