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 ...
Today, a jury in Minneapolis, Minnesota, convicted Derek Chauvin on second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter for killing George Floyd in May 2020. In response, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President ...
Today, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee as part of its hearing, “Jim Crow 2021: The Assault on Voting Rights.” In her written testimony, ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and co-counsel Mark C. McLawhorn submitted an amicus brief in support of Richard Moore, a Black man currently on death row in South Carolina, who ...
