NAACP Legal Defense Fund Requests to Intervene in Justice Department Review of the Baltimore Police Department to Ensure Constitutional Policing

Read the PDF version of our statement here. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a motion today in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland to intervene in ...

LDF Statement on Judge Gorsuch’s Failure to Attract 60 Votes Necessary to End Debate on Nomination

Read a PDF of our statement here.  NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Judge Gorsuch’s Failure to Attract 60 Votes Necessary to End Debate on Nomination This morning, the Senate failed to reach the 60-vote ...

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund Responds to Arkansas’s Extreme Execution Schedule

Read a PDF of our statement here.  The NAACP Legal Defense Fund Responds to Arkansas’s Extreme Execution Schedule Recently Announced Plan Includes Cases Ripe for Clemency The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) ...

LDF Statement on the Department of Justice’s Decision to Delay Baltimore Consent Decree Hearing and Memo Directing Review of Police Investigations

Read a PDF of our statement here.  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Statement on the Department of Justice’s Decision to Delay Baltimore Consent Decree Hearing and Memo Directing Review of Police Investigations “This motion ...

Reflections of Former President and Director-Counsel Ted Shaw on the Legacy of William T. Coleman, Jr.

“When I think about Bill Coleman, I think about Bob Jones University v. I.R.S. and the Reagan Administration’s abandonment in the Supreme Court of the government’s long-held position denying tax-exempt-status to private schools that practiced racial discrimination. ...

LDF Commemorates William T. Coleman, Jr., 1920-2017

See a pdf version of this article here.  The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) mourns the loss of William T. Coleman, Jr., a key member of the legal team that litigated Brown v. ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis File Brief Urging Immediate End to Wealth-Based Bail for People Charged with Misdemeanors in Harris County

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis File Brief Urging Immediate End to Wealth-Based Bail for People Charged with Misdemeanors in Harris County The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) ...

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