Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF)’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released a new report, “Attack on Our Power and Dignity: What Project 2025 Means for Black Communities,” which dissects Project 2025 and details how its ...
This week, the Legal Defense Fund submitted comments expressing concern about the American Bar Association’s (ABA) proposal to remove all mentions of race, ethnicity, and gender from its accreditation standards for law schools. The comment ...
On October 3, 2024, LDF, the Texas Civil Rights Project and the ACLU of Texas, sent a letter urging Texas Attorney General Paxton to issue a statement condemning voter intimidation and violence and affirming his ...
On October 1, 2024, LDF sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin regarding the hearing “A Threat to Justice Everywhere: Stemming the Tide of Hate Crimes in America” held on September 17, ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent a letter to the Atlanta City Council expressing support for Atlanta’s Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative (PAD), which provides critical services for Atlanta’s most vulnerable residents—important services that are ...
Washington, D.C. — In a victory for voting accessibility across Alabama, the Alabama NAACP (AL NAACP), Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM), the League of Women Voters of Alabama (LWVAL), and the Alabama Disability Advocates Program (ADAP) ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) issued an open letter to college and university administrators sharing a recent research report from LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI): Police and Protests: The Inequity of Police Responses to Racial ...
