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Samuel Spital

Samuel “Sam” Spital is Associate Director-Counsel of the Legal Defense Fund (LDF). As one of two Associate Directors-Counsel, Sam will work in partnership with LDF’s eighth President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson, Associate Director Counsel Todd A. Cox, and LDF’s senior leadership team to set and execute the strategic direction of the organization’s programmatic and internal […]

Samuel Spital

Samuel Spital is the Director of Litigation & General Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund (LDF). As Director of Litigation, Sam leads LDF’s racial justice litigation docket across the organization’s four historic pillars: education, economic justice, criminal justice, and political participation. Sam also supervises LDF’s appellate litigation in the Supreme Court, federal circuit courts, and […]

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Ryan Tom

Ryan Tom is a Research and Operations Associate for the NAACP LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute. Prior to joining LDF, he served as a Paralegal for the Federal Defenders of New York. While there, he supported assistant federal public defenders representing indigent clients in the Southern District of New York. During his undergraduate studies, he researched […]

Ryan P. Haygood, Director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, Discusses Today’s Supreme Court Decision to Strike Crucial Section of the Voting Rights Act

Ryan P. Haygood, director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, appeared on Hardball today to discuss the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, which strikes a crucial section of the Voting Rights Act. Mr. Haygood critiqued the Court’s ruling, and called upon Congress to fill the gap in voting rights protection created by today’s decision. […]

Ryan P. Haygood on why Congress will fix the Voting Rights Act this year

“Ryan Haygood, director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, said in an interview with Colorlines.com that he is “very hopeful” about a VRA congressional fix this year. “The Voting Rights Act case is about protecting voters of color, but it’s also about Congress’s powers to legislate,” said Haygood. “[The U.S. Supreme Court]’s decision limited Congress’s constitutional […]

Ryan Haygood Speaks at the 103rd National NAACP Annual Convention on Voting Rights Protection

Ryan Haygood, LDF Director of the Political Participation Group, spoke at the 103rd National NAACP Annual Convention on July 11, 2012 on protecting the voting rights of minorities in upcoming elections. You can see his speech starting at time mark 01:55:47 of the recorded event.

Ryan Haygood on Melissa Harris Perry: Voting Rights are Under Attack

The Director of the Political Participation Group at NAACP Legal Defense Fund Ryan Haygood joined the Melissa Harris Perry Show to discuss the serious threat to voting rights facing African Americans. LDF defended the Voting Rights Act before the U.S. Supreme Court, but last month they issued an outrageous ruling to take it out of […]

Ryan Haygood Discusses the Continuing Need of the VRA on ‘Up w/ Chris Hayes’

See the interview On February 22, 2013, Ryan Haygood, Director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, discussed Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, on Up w/ Chris Hayes on MSNBC. Shelby County, Alabama currently is challenging the constitutionality of Section 5, the heart of the Voting Rights Act. Mr. Haygood was joined by other stakeholders in the […]

Ryan Haygood Discusses Ruling on Florida’s Early Voting Limits

Ryan Haygood, on Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer, hails judges’ ruling against Florida’s limit on early in-person voting and details how the limit would have disproportionately affected minority voting. See the interview.