Following years of litigation, Black voters finally set to achieve fair map BATON ROUGE, LA – Today, the Louisiana Legislature passed a map that creates a second majority-Black congressional district after being granted a final ...
Today, LDF submitted comments to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in response to the request from the Justice Department and Department of home HS for public input regarding law ...
Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a scathing report about the failures of the Uvalde Police Department during the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which resulted in the deaths of ...
Today, Mayor Eric Adams vetoed the Int. 586, part of the How Many Stops Act (HMSA) that would require the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to more fully document its investigative encounters. The bill ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, along with co-counsel Burt M. Rublin of Ballard Spahr LLP, in Trump v. Anderson, a case concerning whether the actions ...
Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it will be seeking the death penalty in the event of a conviction of Payton Gendron, the then 18-year-old white supremacist that shot and killed 10 Black people ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened by the passing of Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, a former client of LDF and advocate for voting rights of current and formerly incarcerated people. Hayden’s vision to end ...
