Civil Rights Organizations Respond to Congressional Failure on Policing Reform

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Leading civil rights organizations released the following joint statement after bipartisan negotiations around the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act were ended: “It is absolutely unacceptable that more than a year after George Floyd was ...

LDF Issues Statement on the Failure to Advance the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021

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Today, members of the United States Senate failed to reach an agreement on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021. In response, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief in New York Gun Safety Case Before the United States Supreme Court

This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the National Urban League filed an amicus brief in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, which asks whether a New York gun ...

LDF Joins Amicus Brief in Mississippi Abortion Rights Case Now Before the U.S. Supreme Court

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This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined an amicus brief filed by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in ...

LDF Issues Statement on Treatment of Haitian Asylum Seekers at U.S. Border

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Over the last few days, Haitian migrants near the southern border of Texas have faced heightened and shocking abuse from U.S. Border Patrol agents while attempting to seek asylum in the United States. Photos show ...

LDF Mourns the Passing of Civil Rights Attorney and Former LDF Litigator Deborah Greenberg

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) deeply mourns the passing of the brilliant civil rights attorney, distinguished LDF litigator, and longtime member of the LDF family, Deborah Greenberg. An expert employment discrimination ...

LDF Requests Supreme Court to Review Racial Discrimination in Death Penalty Case

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Texas attorneys Maurie Levin and Don Bailey, filed a cert petition in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Andre Thomas, a Black man ...

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