District Court Rejects Federal Challenge to Arkansas Congressional Map: Eastern District of Arkansas Court Finds Lack of Evidence that Map is a Racial Gerrymander and is Racially Dilutive

Read a PDF of our statement here.  After years of litigation, a three-judge federal panel granted Defendant’s summary judgment motion in Christian Ministerial Alliance, et al. v. John Thurston, unanimously ruling that the 2021 enacted ...

LDF Condemns President Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Attempt to Curb Constitutionally Protected Protests Against Aggressive ICE Raids

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President Trump issued a memoranda deploying at least 2,000 National Guard troops to California in response to protests against aggressive immigration raids in the Los Angeles area. At one location, SEIU United Service Workers West ...

LDF Opposes Department of Defense Directive to Remove the Names of Civil and Human Rights Icons from Navy Ships

Today, LDF sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth categorically opposing the to the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) reported intentions to remove the names of civil and human rights icons—including Supreme ...

LDF Condemns Trump Administration’s Move to Reinstate Discriminatory Travel Ban

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On Wednesday, the Trump administration issued a proclamation imposing immigration and travel restrictions for people from 12 different countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East. The President’s proclamation contains a number of harmful racial ...

LDF Affirms Supreme Court’s Employment Discrimination Decision Leaves Civil Rights Protections Intact for Historically Marginalized Groups

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Today, the Supreme Court released a unanimous opinion in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, an employment discrimination case centered on the legal application of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ...

LDF Urges Texas Governor Abbott to Veto Senate Bills 12 and 37

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On June 4, 2025, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent a letter  urging Texas Governor Abbott to veto Senate Bill 12 and Senate Bill 37, two restrictive bills in K-12 and higher education recently passed ...

LDF Denounces Baseless House Oversight Hearing Attacking Nonprofits

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Today, the House of Representatives’ Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce held a hearing that purported to investigate the use of federal funds by nonprofit organizations. In reality, it was a politically ...

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