Monday, November 12, 2018 | news
In many ways, Election Day 2018 was a good one for American democracy. Millions of people turned out to vote. An unprecedented number of women are headed to Congress, including the first Native American women and the first Muslim-American women to serve on Capitol Hill. In Florida, voters restored voting rights to more than a million people […]
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 | news
U.S. police chiefs group apologizes for ‘historical mistreatment’ of minorities Sherrilyn Ifill, [President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,] said, “I think Chief Cunningham correctly identifies the need to acknowledge and apologize as a first step, and I don’t want to diminish how important the first step is,” because many police […]
Thursday, September 8, 2016 | news
Without Conservative Supreme Court Majority, Voter-Law Challengers Make Gains Sherrilyn Ifill, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said in a recent interview that trials, with expert witnesses and voluminous records, were instrumental in rebutting the states’ rationale that the laws were needed to combat voter fraud and restore voters’ confidence in the […]
Monday, August 19, 2013 | news
In an opinion piece published in The Root this morning, Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President & Director-Counsel, pens a long manifesto about the state of civil rights in America. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to egregiously undermine the Voting Rights Act and the verdict in the Zimmerman trial, and amid high unemployment […]
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 | news
Source: Slate On Wednesday, the Senate voted 52–48 to acquit President Donald Trump of abuse of power in his efforts to pressure Ukraine to announce an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden. As special counsel Robert Mueller and others have testified, the threats to the 2020 election were already grave. The issues revealed during […]
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 | news
I asked Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, what this institutional silencing signifies. “We should remember that this letter was somehow never made part of the official Senate Judiciary Committee record in 1986, was reportedly kept from public release by the chair of the Committee in 2017, and […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 | news
The Court after Scalia: Affirmative action in a changing Court How will the confirmation of a ninth Justice affect the future of diversity in higher education? After years of going back and forth to the Supreme Court over litigation in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin and its predecessors – and decades of debating […]
Thursday, July 27, 2017 | news
President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission is illegal and unconstitutional — that’s why we filed a lawsuit The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund recently filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission as illegal and unconstitutional. Our complaint makes clear that to falsely allege that voter fraud exists is nothing more […]
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | news
“Describing the work of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as part of a liberal “ideological agenda” establishes a simplistic and unacceptable right-left balance that denigrates core civil rights work. Racial equality is a universal and central core value of unique importance to America’s post-Civil War identity, not an ideological agenda. Until very recently, […]
Thursday, August 3, 2017 | news
President Trump’s Justice Department has hardly been worthy of its name. It has retreated from meaningful police reform, argued on behalf of state laws that suppress minority voting rights, directed prosecutors to seek harsh sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, and extended the federal government’s power to seize the property of innocent Americans. Each of these […]
