LDF Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee on Assault on Voting Rights

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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, ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief in South Carolina Supreme Court Urging Expansion of Cases it Considers in Conducting Comparative Proportionality Review

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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 ...

LDF Issues Statement on Gov. DeSantis Signing Anti-Protest Law in Florida

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Today, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed H.B. 1, an anti-protestor bill that creates a new criminal penalty called “mob intimidation,” intensifies criminal and civil penalties for those who engage in protests, and allows specific elected ...

Civil Rights Coalition Releases Civil Rights Principles for Student Loan Debt Cancellation

Today, the Legal Defense Fund and a coalition of civil rights organizations released a set of principles to ensure that broad loan cancellation advances equity and supports all borrowers, especially women and Black and Latinx ...

LDF Issues Statement on Police Killing of Children, Calls for the Department of Justice to Take Action

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Yesterday, body-worn camera footage was released depicting the fatal March 29 police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago. In response, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued the ...

LDF Submits Testimony to the South Carolina House Judiciary Committee Regarding Two Voting Bills

Today, LDF submitted testimony to the South Carolina House Judiciary Committee expressing opposition to H. 4150, and support of H. 3822. While H. 4150 would create early voting, it would allocate voting locations through an ...

LDF Issues Statement Following the Confirmation Hearing for Kristen Clarke, Nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights

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Today, the United States Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to consider the nomination of Kristen Clarke for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and ...

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