Yesterday, independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, along with two other individuals, were arrested after reporting on protest activity last week at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. The journalists were covering demonstrators, some of ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with several civil rights legacy organizations, delivered a letter to Congress urging U.S. Senators to oppose any effort to advance appropriations bills related to the funding of the ...
On Jan. 28, FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Fulton County, Georgia, elections office. This raid follows years of President Trump attempting to manufacture evidence of election fraud related to the 2020 presidential ...
In the wake of increased violent attacks across the country against elected officials, Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement: “In this moment, we are all witnesses to a profoundly ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to correct an erroneous interpretation of a core civil rights doctrine in National Fair ...
The leaders of the nation’s legacy civil rights organizations issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement: We condemn the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents ...
Today, a Minneapolis man, Alex Pretti, was fatally shot by a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agent, according to city officials. The 37-year-old was a U.S. citizen and intensive care unit nurse. Available video evidence ...
