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Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s Criminal Records Policy: EEOC Complaint

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) represented individuals who have been unfairly denied employment opportunities with WMATA and its contractors because of their criminal backgrounds in administrative proceedings before the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).  LDF’s challenge to WMATA’s criminal records policy are part of a broader effort to reform the ways criminal history […]

Was Trayvon Martin’s Killing A Federal Hate Crime?

Civil rights groups cheered the news that the Justice Department would look into the case of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen shot by a man on neighborhood watch in Sanford, Fla. But the bar for the Justice Department to make a federal case is high. Ultimately, it has few options at its disposal when […]

Waller County Modestly Expands Early Voting in Prairie View, LDF’s Suit Still Pending

In response to public pressure and a lawsuit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), election commissioners in Waller County, Texas yesterday took a modest but important step forward to provide equal opportunities to vote through early voting at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), a historically Black college in Waller County. […]

Waldon v. Cincinnati Public Schools

Gregory Waldon had been a hard working, valued employee of the Cincinnati Public School system (CPS) for nearly 30 years. Mr. Waldon, who is African American, was looking forward to retiring in a few years with full benefits and spending time with his wife, children and grandchildren. But his supervisors at CPS told him he […]

Voting with a Felony Conviction in FL

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Voting Rights Organizations Send Letter to Texas Secretary of State about Expanding Vote-by-Mail Eligibility in Response to COVID-19

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined twenty-six other voting rights organizations in sending a letter to Texas Secretary of State Ruth Hughes urging the expansion of vote-by-mail eligibility in response to COVID-19. State law says that a voter qualifies to vote by mail “if the voter has a sickness or […]

Voting Rights Organizations Move to Block Provisions in Georgia’s Anti-Voter Law in 2022 Election Cycle

Media Contacts: SPLC: Kevin Pallasch, Kevin.Pallasch@splcenter.org, (470) 403-7386 LDF: Phoebe Plagens, media@naacpldf.org, 646-979-7382 ACLU of Georgia: Dorrie Toney, media@acluga.org, (404) 302-0128 ACLU National: Inga Sarda-Sorensen, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org, (347) 514-3984 WilmerHale: Frank James, frank.james@wilmerhale.com, (202) 247-3560 Davis Wright Tremaine: Mark Fefer, markfefer@dwt.com, (206) 757-8583  Voting Rights Organizations Move to Block Provisions in Georgia’s Anti-Voter Law in 2022 Election […]

Voting Rights Groups: Elections Must Proceed While States Protect Public Health

WASHINGTON – The co-chairs of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Voting Rights Task Force and other organizations issued the following statement on the state of Louisiana’s decision to postpone its presidential primary, originally scheduled for April 4, until June 20: “The current Coronavirus pandemic presents tremendous challenges to local authorities as they plan […]

Voting Rights Groups Send Letter to Georgia Election Officials Regarding Voters Who Requested Absentee Ballots Voting In Person

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), All Voting Is Local Georgia, and SPLC Action Fund sent a letter to Georgia election officials urging them to make a plan immediately for the likelihood that a significant number of voters who requested absentee ballots vote in person. An unprecedented 1.5 million Georgia voters have […]