Today, 30 local, state-based, and national organizations announced the formation of the PASCO Coalition: People Against the Surveillance of Children and Overpolicing to call on the Pasco County School District to stop its practice of ...
This morning, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to suspend the distribution of federal funds to law enforcement agencies until the Department of Justice (DOJ) can confirm ...
“STAY OUT OF POLITICS,” warned Mitch McConnell, the senate’s top Republican, representing Kentucky. It was a message to the American business community in response to the condemnation by some prominent business leaders of a new ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and the NAACP Florida State Conference (“FSC”) sent a letter to the Florida House of Representatives expressing opposition to H.B. 7041, and urging them to ...
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jones v. Mississippi that the Eighth Amendment does not require a trial court to make a specific finding that an underaged youth sentenced to life without the possibility ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and the NAACP Florida State Conference (“FSC”) sent a letter to Florida senators expressing opposition to S.B. 90 and urging senators to vote no on ...
Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General of the United States, the third-ranking position in the Department of Justice (DOJ). Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP ...
