Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of Black and other communities of color in Dorce v. City of New York, a lawsuit challenging New York City’s Third Party ...
Today, in a bipartisan 53-40 vote, the United States Senate confirmed Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to serve on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Lisa Cylar Barrett, Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense ...
On June 22, 2021, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) sent a letter to urging Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to veto S.B. 224, H.B. 704, and H.B. 138, three restrictive voting bills ...
Yesterday, the Senate failed to advance S. 1. The For the People Act to a full floor debate. By doing so, it failed to protect the most fundamental tenet of our democracy—the right to vote. This ...
On Monday, a federal district court in Louisiana ruled that the St. Martin Parish school board is violating a 2016 desegregation order in Thomas v. School Board of St. Martin Parish. At trial this past ...
Public Citizen, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today submitted a joint comment on the U.S. Postal Service’s proposal to lengthen ...
On June 16, 2021, Senator Manchin released a compromise memo to H.R. 1, For The People Act. The following is a response to this memo signed by a coalition of national civil rights and advocacy ...
