Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | news
Dear Governor DeSantis: On behalf of All Voting is Local Florida, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., League of Women Voters of Florida, Common Cause Florida, American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Campaign Legal Center, SPLC Action Fund, Advancement Project, The National Congress of Black Women, […]
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | news
Photo courtesy Loteria Films In a progress report co-published by Stanford Law School’s “Three Strikes Project” and LDF, the recidivism rate among inmates released under California’s Prop. 36, also known as the Three Strikes Reform Act, continues to be remarkably low. Those released under Prop. 36 have a recidivism rate of 1.3 percent, well below […]
Thursday, May 2, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) issued a statement roundly and unequivocally condemning the rising civil and human rights violations against peaceful protesters across the U.S. and issued a letter calling for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to conduct an immediate investigation into the treatment of peaceful protesters and for the Department of Education (DOE) […]
Thursday, October 8, 2015 | news
(Washington, DC) – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Deputy Secretary John King, Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), other civil rights advocates, teachers, and students in a Capitol Hill roundtable discussion about education policy and funding as the […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Kenneth Reams was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the killing of a white man during the course of an ATM robbery in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, despite another person confessing to committing the crime, clear-cut jury discrimination, and his appointed defense counsel providing extremely ineffective assistance in preparing and arguing his case. […]
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 | news
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the following joint statement on their call with Facebook leadership: “The civil rights community is united in the concerns we have about Facebook’s efforts to […]
Friday, February 25, 2011 | news
There is nothing quite like a major figure from history speaking to us directly. This is the experience we have when reading Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall (Amistad, 2011). Thurgood Marshall was the fearless litigator for the NAACP and then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who led countless courtroom battles […]
Monday, January 16, 2017 | news
In 1986, Coretta Scott King, the late wife of renowned civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and a prominent civil rights activist in her own right, wrote a nine-page statement opposing the nomination of Jeff Sessions to a federal district court judgeship. She focused on Sessions’ targetting of voting rights champions, and Dr. King’s […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Raymond Audain serves as Senior Counsel at LDF’s New York office, where he focuses on class action and Section 1983 impact litigation. Raymond served as lead counsel in NAACP v. DHS, a federal lawsuit to enjoin the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to rescind Temporary Protected Status for Haitians in the United States. Raymond is […]
Friday, October 5, 2012 | news
MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge cited Jay-Z, noted rapper and legal philosopher, in a footnote to her order approving a lawsuit challenging New York City’s practice of sending “vertical patrols” of police to search public housing residents. “In one of his most popular songs, the rapper Jay-Z – who grew up in NYCHA’s Marcy […]
