LDF’s History of Challenging Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Batson v. Kentucky, a U.S. Supreme Court case that prohibits the exclusion of jurors based solely on their race as a ...

LDF Releases Report on the Nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the United States Supreme Court

With the United States Senate set to return from its recess on Monday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has released a comprehensive report examining the civil rights record of Chief Judge ...

LDF Statement on Announcement of Compromise Bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015

Yesterday a bipartisan group of United States Senators announced changes to the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, S. 2123.  “We are pleased to see that a group of Republican and Democratic Senators announced their willingness ...

LDF and Other Civil Rights Advocates File Brief Urging Ninth Circuit to Defer to EEOC’s Guidance on Criminal Background Checks in Employment

Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a “friend of the court” brief in Guerrero v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, ...

LDF Statement on North Carolina Forward Together/Moral Mondays Movement

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joins the North Carolina Forward Together/Moral Mondays movement in calling for the repeal of North Carolina House Bill 2. We are not this. House Bill 2 ...

LDF Statement on Launch of Inaugural National Reentry Week and Attorney General Lynch’s Reform Package to Improve the Reentry Process for Persons Leaving Federal Prisons

  The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) lauded the announcement by Attorney General Loretta Lynch that she will personally request that state governors provide state-issued identification cards to persons returning to their ...

Civil Rights Leaders Respond to North Charleston Officials’ Request to the Department of Justice for Help with Improving Policing Practices

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and South Carolina civil rights leaders welcome the announcement by North Charleston’s Mayor and Chief of Police that they have invited the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) ...

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