Sunday, August 26, 2018 | news
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Six prominent African-American civil rights leaders sent a letter today to Senate leaders to express their concern that the Senate is not meeting its responsibility to fully and impartially evaluate the fitness of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The letter, addressed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles […]
Saturday, July 23, 2022 | news
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mattie Goldman, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, goldman@civilrights.org Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org Chris Ford, The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), media@naacpldf.org Rotimi Adeoye, American Civil Liberties Union, radeoye@aclu.org Michelle Boykins, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Mboykins@advancingjustice-aajc.org Mauda Moran, The Native American Rights […]
Monday, January 31, 2022 | news
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / LINK / TWEET THIS January 31, 2022 Contact: Kiren Marshall, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, marshall@civilrights.org Angelo Greco, The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation/Black Women’s Roundtable, 917-499-2688, angelo@trillmulticultural.com Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 202-558-7900, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org Juan Martinez, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, […]
Thursday, March 14, 2024 | news
(New York City, NY) – Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), advocacy organizations, and a number of New York City elected officials sent a letter to New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, condemning her five-point plan that includes the deployment of National Guard and state law enforcement personnel to conduct searches in New York City […]
Thursday, May 19, 2011 | news
The State of New York filed a very perfunctory rebuttal to the Senate GOP’s legal challenge to “prison gerrymandering,” and now a group of outside organizations — including the NAACP, Common Cause and VOCAL-NY — wants to intervene on the state’s behalf. From a court filing yesterday: “The proposed intervenors are voters and organizations […]
Thursday, June 23, 2022 | news
On February 17, 2022, WNBA superstar Brittney Griner was detained upon her arrival in Moscow. As of April 29, 2022, Griner was officially classified as a Wrongful Detention by the U.S. State Department. On Wednesday, June 22nd, a diverse coalition of civil and human rights organizations penned a letter to the White House asking officials […]
Thursday, February 29, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Southern Center for Human Rights, and the Center for Constitutional Rights—leaders of civil rights organizations that are based or have offices in Atlanta and have a long history of social justice advocacy in this city and across Georgia—have sent a letter to the Atlanta City Council urging it […]
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the National Urban League, represented by O’Melveny & Myers LLP, filed an amicus brief in Barnes v. Felix, encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the so-called “moment of threat” doctrine, a dangerous legal framework which undermines police accountability, encourages police violence, and disproportionately harms Black people. The […]
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 | news
Today, four major civil rights groups sent a letter to U.S. Senators urging them to oppose introduction and co-sponsorship of the Protect and Serve Act of 2018, which would extend hate crime protections to law enforcement officers. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Leadership Conference on Civil […]
Friday, February 18, 2022 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union, (ACLU), and a coalition of civil rights groups sent a letter urging Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to veto state legislative maps, H.B. 14 and S.B. 1, that violate the Voting Rights Act by failing to add a second majority-Black district […]
