Wednesday, December 14, 2016 | news
Read the PDF of our joint statement here. Washington, DC, December 14 – The Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ) submitted by Sen. Jeff Sessions as a prerequisite for his confirmation hearing to become U.S. Attorney General lacks hundreds of entries that should have been included and is woefully inadequate in its current form, according to a number of organizations that have examined […]
Monday, January 30, 2017 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) closely monitored the confirmation hearings for Senator Jeff Sessions, nominee for U.S. Attorney General, and Betsy DeVos, nominee for Secretary of Education. Both hearings further demonstrated what the nominees’ records already showed: Senator Sessions is not prepared to lead in the enforcement of our nation’s civil […]
Thursday, December 22, 2016 | ldf-perspectives
By Kyle Barry Policy Counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund With Senator Jeff Sessions’s Attorney General nomination set for a confirmation hearing next month, he and President-elect Trump’s transition team have tried to rebrand his image into one of civil rights hero, asserting, without evidence, that Sessions has a “strong civil rights record.” Yet throughout his entire […]
Monday, March 23, 2020 | page
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) Senior Counsel, Chris Kemmitt, argued before the California Supreme Court in the capital case State v. Miles. The trial in this case occurred shortly after the well-publicized O.J. Simpson trial, and the prosecutor used a question about whether prospective jurors were upset about the verdict in Mr. […]
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
by Kyle Barry, LDF Policy Counsel In tweets and statements, Senate Republicans have emphatically distanced themselves from President Trump’s morally bankrupt response to the violent white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville. When Trump blamed “both sides” and said that “many fine people” were among the torch-bearing neo Nazis, the bipartisan rebuke was swift. Jeff Flake said that “we […]
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | news
WASHINGTON – Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), leading civil rights and law enforcement organizations, and conservative leaders hosted a press call today urging the Senate to confirm Vanita Gupta as the next associate attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice. The Senate is scheduled to hold a hearing on her nomination on March 9. To […]
Friday, December 7, 2018 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to reports that President Trump plans to nominate William P. Barr to serve as attorney general: “At this critical moment in our history, it is essential that the Justice Department is led by someone who […]
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 | case-update
In keeping with the bipartisan support that the Voting Rights Act has always enjoyed, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing, “From Selma to Shelby County: Working Together to Restore the Protections of the Voting Rights Act,” for Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office […]
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 | news
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines, 11-9, to report the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General to the Senate floor despite the fact that he has been a lifelong opponent of civil rights and lacks the independence essential to the role of Attorney General. The full Senate must reject this nomination. […]
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 | news
Statement by Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of LDF I am deeply disappointed that the United States Senate failed to confirm Debo Adegbile for the position of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. The Senate voted against cloture (closing debate) on the nomination. We call upon Senator Reid to […]
