Today, for the first time in a decade and for only the 24th time in United States history, a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to censure Representative Paul Gosar, who recently ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF), working with Rights Behind Bars, submitted an appellate response brief on behalf of LDF’s client Marcus Briceno, who suffered unreasonable force at the hands ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today announced that President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill will step down from her role in the spring of 2022 after nearly a decade leading the organization through its ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Rights Behind Bars, a legal advocacy organization for incarcerated people, submitted an amicus brief in Mack v. Yost et al. The case, which is ...
Today, President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a multibillion-dollar investment in roads, bridges, transportation systems, lead remediation for water, broadband, and other important aspects of the country’s physical infrastructure. In response ...
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, LDF,925-819-0555, ewiley@naacpldf.org Rebecca Seung-Bickley, ACLU of Alabama, 334-561-3829, rseungbickley@aclualabama.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Graeme Crews, SPLC, 334-224-0002, graeme.crews@splcenter.org BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Individual voters joined with civil rights and faith groups today to file a ...
Today, Senator Patrick Leahy announced that he will not seek reelection to the U.S. Senate in the 2022 election. Senator Leahy, who at the time of his election in 1974 was the youngest senator ever ...
