Today marks the two-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, during which the Biden Administration released Executive Order 14074 on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety. The ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund sent letters to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the nomination of Nancy Abudu to serve as a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund, the South Carolina NAACP, and the ACLU of South Carolina sent a letter to the North Charleston, South Carolina City Council regarding the redistricting process and their obligations under the ...
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in Briceno v. Williams, affirming the district court’s denial of qualified immunity to Officer Blake Williams of the San Diego Police Department ...
Today is the 68th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case. In commemoration, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson released the following statement: ...
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC (Advancing Justice – AAJC), the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and LatinoJustice PRLDEF, together with law firm Arnold & Porter, submitted an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
Today, an 18-year-old white supremacist shot and killed at least 10 individuals in a shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket that law enforcement is treating as a hate crime. In response, Janai S. Nelson, ...
