Read a PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the Passing of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam We are shocked and saddened by news of the death of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, a brilliant ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson strongly urging him to immediately stay the scheduled executions of seven death-sentenced prisoners over an 11-day period ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, a federal district court found in Veasey v. Abbott that Texas bill SB 14 – the strictest photo ID law in the country – was enacted to ...
Read the PDF version of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the Denial of the Request to Intervene in the Justice Department Review of the Baltimore Police Department Today, U.S. District Judge ...
Read the PDF version of our statement here. Today, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar approved the consent decree between the U.S. Department of Justice and Baltimore City officials to remedy allegations of widespread and ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. Judge Gorsuch Must Prove Himself To Be a Justice for All Americans Earlier today, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of confirming Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the ...
A federal court today denied a motion to dismiss a challenge to Alabama’s discriminatory voter ID law brought by plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. The ruling comes in the ...
