Six Civil Rights Leaders Unite to Raise Concerns over Kavanaugh’s Nomination to Supreme Court

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Today, leaders of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF); National Urban League; National Action Network; Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; NAACP; and National Coalition for Black Civic Participation joined in ...

Court Orders NYPD to Electronically Record All Citizen Encounters

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Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York   Court Orders NYPD to Electronically Record All Citizen Encounters Order Calls for Pilot Program to Study Effectiveness of Documenting All Encounters Today, a federal ...

LDF Statement on Withdrawal of Ryan Bounds’ Nomination for Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

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The Senate Majority Leader today moved to withdraw Ryan Bounds’ nomination for a lifetime appointment on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Had he been confirmed, Bounds would have become the first circuit court nominee ...

What’s at Stake: Judge Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination

By: NAACP LDF Source: Medium   For over 30 years, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has conducted a full and thorough analysis of the civil rights record of each nominee to ...

LDF Statement on Senate Confirmation of Circuit Court Nominee Andrew Oldham

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The Senate voted today to confirm Andrew Oldham to a lifetime appointment on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In May, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the ...

Civil Rights Attorneys Push Back on NYPD Objections to Stop-and-Frisk Reforms

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Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York   Last night, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and unconstitutional further urged the ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Urging North Carolina Supreme Court to Address Race Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases

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  LDF Files Amicus Brief Urging North Carolina Supreme Court to Address Race Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases Brief Calls for Defendants to Receive New Sentences or Have Chance to Challenge Claims of Racial Bias Under North ...

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