LDF Condemns Department of Justice for Gutting Regulations on Longstanding Civil Rights Enforcement Tool

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Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) gutted regulations that help ensure federal funding recipients don’t maintain discriminatory policies against Black communities and other groups that experience discrimination based on race, color, or national origin. Specifically, ...

Supreme Court to Hear High-Stakes Birthright Citizenship Challenge

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Immigrants’ rights advocates will argue critical case before the Supreme Court later this term. Courts have uniformly rejected President Trump’s attempts to strip away a core constitutional protection and blocked his birthright citizenship executive order ...

LDF Condemns Deployment of Federal Agents in New Orleans

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Today, the Trump Administration has deployed federal agents to New Orleans, Louisiana and has indicated National Guard troops will soon be deployed. This follows federal National Guard deployments in other states, including Washington D.C., Memphis, ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Urging Court to Continue Halting National Guard Deployment to Protect D.C. Residents

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The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in District of Columbia v. Trump, urging the court to deny the Trump administration’s request to stay the District ...

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