Today, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed an important Fourth Amendment protection for victims of police violence in the case of Torres v Madrid. As the Court held, police may not violate someone’s constitutional rights ...
Today, a federal district court in Louisiana began hearing witness testimony and evidence in Thomas v. School Board of St. Martin Parish, a school desegregation case. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) ...
Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) submitted written testimony to the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee in opposition of Senate Bill 7 that would further restrict access to voting. The proposed bill ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and SPLC Action Fund (SPLC Action) provided testimony against Georgia Senate Bill 202 (S.B. 202). The organizations submitted written testimony “to express in the strongest ...
As the Asian American community deals with Tuesday’s mass shootings in Atlanta that left eight dead, including six Asian women, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has submitted testimony to the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to two voter suppression bills — S. 113 and S. 236. LDF is concerned ...
Today, the United States Senate confirmed Rep. Deb Haaland as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), the agency responsible for protecting the nation’s natural resources and public lands, honoring its commitment to tribal ...
