Monday, February 8, 2021 | staff
Monday, December 5, 2011 | news
Victory for Civil Rights, Fair Representation Removes Any Doubt That Redistricting Body Can Proceed Under New Law Albany, NY – New York Supreme Court Justice Eugene Devine today upheld New York’s law ending prison-based gerrymandering in the Little v. LATFOR lawsuit. The case was argued on behalf of intervenors by Dale Ho, Assistant Counsel with […]
Thursday, August 8, 2024 | staff
Alaizah Koorji is Senior Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, where she works on voting rights, criminal justice and educational equity. Alaizah leads LDF’s amicus team in André et al. v. Clayton County, Georgia on behalf of Black comedians Eric Andre and Clayton English, who, on their way to board their flights out of the […]
Thursday, September 4, 2014 | news
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is alleging that at least 282 ballots in the state’s June 3 primary election were not counted due to Alabama’s law requiring voters to show a valid photo identification card. In a letter dated today to Jean W. Brown, the Alabama Secretary of State’s chief […]
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 | case-issue
On December 13, 2018, LDF filed a lawsuit under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments challenging the at-large electoral system for the City Council of Pleasant Grove, Alabama. Under the at-large system, the whole city votes for each seat on the City Council rather than voting by district. If […]
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 | news
Shelby County V. Holder: One Year Later It’s been one year since the Supreme Court ruled a key provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. In Shelby County, Alabama versus Holder the ruling says states with a history of chronic racial discrimination no longer needed to get Justice Department approval for changes to voting […]
Monday, September 20, 2021 | page
Alabama for Truth in Education The right to free expression is a cornerstone of our democracy—and a fundamental aspect of our public education system, where people have the freedom to learn about our country’s diversity of histories, heritages, and perspectives. These protections are particularly critical for Black Americans and other individuals, whose histories and perspectives—for […]
Thursday, October 7, 2021 | case-issue
Monday, July 16, 2018 | fact-sheets
Monday, July 20, 2020 | news
On Friday, July 17, 2020, Alabama’s Secretary of State announced that no-excuse absentee voting would continue through the November 3, 2020, elections. The announcement is a massive win in the fight for accessible voting amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Secretary’s decision comes after the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Southern Poverty Law […]
