LDF Files Amicus Brief Highlighting the Importance of History and Context in Employment Discrimination in Case Before Supreme Court 

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and five other civil rights organizations filed an amicus brief in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, an employment discrimination case centered on the correct application of Title ...

LDF Raises Alarm Over Mass Clemency of Insurrectionists

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This week, President Trump issued a sweeping series of pardons and commutations to roughly 1,500 individuals who participated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. This misuse of clemency powers includes leaders ...

LDF Condemns President Trump’s Executive Order Expanding the Federal Death Penalty

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This week, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety,” which contains multiple provisions on the use of the federal death penalty. The order urges the U.S. Attorney ...

LDF Condemns Trump’s First Round of Executive Orders and Forecasts Legal Action 

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The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today condemned a series of Executive Orders issued by President Trump on the first day of his second and final term in office that are a sweeping attack on democracy ...

Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Birthright Citizenship Executive Order    

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New order puts newborns in harm’s way, is unconstitutional, and flouts fundamental American values     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   January 20, 2025    CONTACT:   Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Ari Mischik, ACLU of New Hampshire, ariana@aclu-nh.org ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Trumps Hatred and Ill-Will

Eight Organizations Join Together on January 20 (Washington, DC, January 20, 2025) – Building from a first term riddled with policies that violated human rights, the incoming Trump administration has proposed a dangerous path for ...

LDF Praises President Biden’s Clemency Announcement Pardoning Kemba Smith Pradia, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, and Others, and Commuting Michelle West’s Sentence

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Today, along with issuing grants of clemency to Darryl Chamber, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Don Leonard Scott, Jr., Ravidath “Ravi” Ragbir, and Robin Peoples, all of whom exemplify the power of transformation and rehabilitation, President Biden ...

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