Today, President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court to fill the upcoming vacancy due to the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, announcing the first nomination of ...
Today, former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao were convicted for willfully depriving George Floyd of his liberty without due process while acting under color of law, including by failing ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted written testimony to the Florida Senate Committee on Appropriations expressing opposition to S.B. 524, a harmful elections bill that would likely restrict access to ...
Today, the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP (AL NAACP) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted written testimony in opposition to H.B. 312 in Alabama. The expansive anti-truth bill (H.B. ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Rights Behind Bars submitted an appellate response brief on behalf of David Getzen, who was twice electrocuted with a taser and pepper-sprayed by Deputy ...
Today, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan were found guilty in a federal hate crime trial of attempted kidnapping and willfully, by way of force and threat of force, injuring, intimidating, and interfering ...
Today, the New York Voting Rights Consortium, a non-partisan group of civil rights organizations, reiterated its support for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA). The consortium, which includes the NAACP ...
