Today, the Legal Defense Fund and partner civil rights organizations sent a letter to Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson regarding polling site changes and voter notification. This is the second letter sent to Secretary ...
Today, LDF and a coalition of civil rights, public interest, voting rights, and other organizations, sent a letter urging social media companies to take immediate steps to curb the spread of voting disinformation in the ...
In a 2021 private conversation about the Los Angeles City Council redistricting process that was recently disclosed to the public by the Los Angeles Times, now-former Los Angeles City Council president Nury Martinez and fellow ...
Today, President Biden announced major steps in reforming the nation’s long-standing criminalization of people – disproportionately Black and Brown persons – for possessing or using cannabis, including pardons for prior federal offenses related to cannabis ...
Washington, D.C. — October 4, 2022 — Plaintiffs and attorneys in Merrill v. Milligan, a case challenging Alabama’s new congressional map for diluting the ability of Black voters to elect candidates of their choice, held ...
Today, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy introduced a set of principles to support the development of policies and practices for the building, deployment, and governance of automated systems, a “Blueprint for ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund submitted comments in response to the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights’ proposed rule on Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities. In the face of persistent ...
