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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Brief Calls for Defendants to Receive New Sentences or Have Chance to Challenge Claims of Racial Bias Under North ...
LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson joined Joy Reid on AM Joy with Matthew Miller, a former Director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice, to talk about Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme ...
LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill discusses Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and the upcoming confirmation process with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.
