Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) tapped two leading civil rights attorneys to direct the organization’s robust and expanding litigation practice as threats to the civil and human rights of Black people and other marginalized ...
On June 20, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bills 12 and 37 (SB 12 and SB 37), which are two bills that significantly risk censorship and restrictions of accurate and inclusive ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted formal comments to the U.S. Department of Education (ED), expressing strong opposition to two of the agency’s three proposed supplemental priorities for federal grantees. LDF urges ED to ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) recognizes Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, over two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, to deliver the news to over 250,000 ...
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in United States v. Skrmetti, affirming a lower court’s decision to uphold a Tennessee law banning medically necessary gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. The court found ...
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Associate Director-Counsel Todd A. Cox issued the following statement in response to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrest of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander inside an immigration courthouse: “The ...
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson issued the following statement to mark ten years since the tragic racial hate crime mass murder of a Black pastor and parishioners by a white gunman at ...
