Today, the United States Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, filling the seat formerly occupied by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Sherrilyn Ifill, President and ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Thompson v. Clark, a U.S. Supreme Court case that will determine whether a plaintiff filing a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ...
Today, United States Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a policy address on voting rights and the work the Department of Justice (DOJ) is undertaking to protect and expand access to the ballot box. Sherrilyn Ifill, ...
Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recommended that President Joe Biden nominate voting rights attorneys Myrna Perez and Dale Ho to respectively serve on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and as a federal ...
Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law announced that Damon Hewitt, a former attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), will serve as the organization’s next president and executive ...
Today, Andrew Smith – who is represented by Massena Law, P.C., The Vessup Law Firm, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and the Initiative for a Just Society – sued the City of New ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) urged Texas legislators to vote down the Conference Committee Report on Senate Bill 7 (S.B. 7) in its entirety. LDF previously sent testimony to the ...
