Harvard Student and Alumni Organizations React to SFFA’s Appeal to Supreme Court in Lawsuit Challenging Harvard’s Race Conscious Admissions

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Today, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), an organization founded by conservative activist Ed Blum, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court in their latest bid to overturn the Court’s ...

Civil Rights Groups Respond to Students for Fair Admissions’ Decision to Sue Yale University

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Today, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), an organization founded by conservative activist Ed Blum. filed a lawsuit challenging Yale University’s holistic, race-conscious admissions policies, seeking to revive a case that was voluntarily dismissed by the ...

LDF Secures Another Victory in Case Challenging the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice

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Yesterday, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment on a remaining undue influence claim in an NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) case challenging the creation and ...

LDF and SPLC Submit Testimony in the Georgia Senate Ethics Committee Opposing Senate Bill 241

Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) and the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund submitted testimony in the Georgia state Senate Ethics Committee opposing Senate Bill 241. (S.B. 241) The enactment ...

LDF Sends Letter Expressing Concerns Over NYPD’s Compliance with the POST Act

Today, a coalition that includes the  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF), sent a letter to the New York City Police Department Police Commissioner and Commissioner of the Department of Investigation expressing concern ...

Civil Rights Leaders Call on Congress to Pass George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

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Today, civil rights leaders called on the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act – a critical step to holding law enforcement accountable for unconstitutional and unethical conduct. The ...

LDF Sends Letters to Police Departments Calling For Investigation of Officers Involved in Attack on U.S. Capitol

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent joint letters to police departments in Tulsa, Oklahoma; North Charleston, South Carolina; Ferguson, Missouri; and Louisville, Kentucky. The letters call for a full and ...

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