LDF Submits Testimony Expressing Opposition to Louisiana’s Senate Bill 224

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted testimony to the Louisiana House and Governmental Affairs Committee expressing opposition to Senate Bill 224 (SB 224), which aims to impose burdensome identification requirements ...

LDF Issues Statement on the Restoration of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status

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Today, the Biden administration announced that it will restore Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which the Trump administration rescinded in 2017. TPS allows recipients from designated countries experiencing violence and conflict or natural disasters to ...

LDF Submits Input for Transparency, Public Involvement, and Fair Representation During Upcoming Redistricting Process in Louisiana

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), submitted a public proposal on best practices for public involvement, fair representation, and transparency during the upcoming redistricting process in Louisiana to the Committee on ...

LDF Sends Letters to the Senate Judiciary Committee Support of Two Judicial Nominees

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) sent two letters to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee leaders in support of the nomination of Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, to serve as a judge on the ...

LDF Submits Testimony Expressing Opposition to S.B. 299 in Michigan

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. submitted written testimony to the Michigan Senate Committee on Elections opposing S.B. 299, a bill that would require election workers to stop counting votes and report ...

Supreme Court Rules that Decision Requiring Unanimous Juries in Federal and State Criminal Trials Does Not Apply Retroactively to Cases on Federal Collateral Review

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Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a momentous and disappointing decision in Edwards v. Vannoy, a case in which the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in July ...

LDF Submits Written Testimony in Support of An Expansion of the Louisiana Supreme Court

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) submitted written testimony to the Louisiana House Government Affairs Committee in support of a proposal in Senate Bill 163 to include a constitutional amendment on ...

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