LDF Submits Testimony to the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission’s Long Island Hearing

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) submitted testimony to the New York State Independent Redistricting Committee urging the commission to ensure compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and ...

LDF Issues Statement on Expanded Child Tax Credit Payments

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Today, the Biden Administration announced the first disbursement of monthly expanded Child Tax Credit payments to middle- and low-income families with children. Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. ...

LDF Sends Letters to All Michigan Senators Expressing Opposition to Two Voting Bills

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent letters to every Michigan State Senator opposing two restrictive voting bills, S.B. 303 and S.B. 304, and urging senators to take no further action ...

LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson Testifies on the Consequences of Shelby and Brnovich Decisions and the Need for Federal Voting Rights Protections

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Today, Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution to underscore the significance of the Voting Rights ...

Civil Rights Groups File Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Block Anti-Protest Law, H.B.1

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and Community Justice Project (CJP), with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP serving as counsel, filed a motion ...

LDF Issues Statement on President Biden’s Voting Rights Address

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Today, President Joe Biden delivered remarks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, regarding the urgent need to protect voting rights in the United States, especially as increasingly suppressive legislation is being introduced and passed by state legislators throughout ...

LDF Submits Testimony in Opposition to Two Texas Voter Suppression Bills

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF)  submitted testimony in opposition to two omnibus voter suppression bills introduced in the Texas special legislative session that began Thursday, July 8, 2021. Texas House Bill ...

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