The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) asked the U.S. Supreme Court today to take up the question of whether police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest. The ...
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joins Joy Reid and Stacey Abrams on The AMJoy show to discuss the Georgia midterms and the Voting Rights Act.
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s selection of Joel Fitzgerald as Baltimore’s next police ...
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith’s comments that making voting “a little more difficult” for “liberal” ...
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, issued the following statement on the First Step Act criminal justice reform bill: “The revised First Step Act, S. 3649 is the latest modest ...
Todd A. Cox, director of policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement about the Senate’s decision to move forward with the nomination of Thomas Farr to the ...
WASHINGTON – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following statement regarding the unresolved ballot crisis ...
