Yesterday, President Biden signed the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site Expansion Act, a measure to honor and preserve the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision by officially recognizing four other communities whose contributions were ...
BATON ROUGE, LA – Today, a five-day evidentiary hearing for a preliminary injunction came to a close in Robinson v. Ardoin, the case challenging Louisiana’s congressional map as a violation of Section 2 of the ...
Media contacts: Chris Ford: media@naacpldf.org Ben Schaefer: media@nyclu.org Monica Garcia: press@standupamerica.com Today, civil and voting rights groups praised members of the Senate Elections Committee for voting to move the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act ...
The Legal Defense Fund joined a coalition of civil rights groups in sending a letter to the U.S. Senate in support of S. 4132, the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022. The letter urges all ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund and 71 additional organizations sent a letter urging Governor Kathy Hochul, Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Speaker Carl Heastie to prioritize, pass, and sign into law the John R. Lewis ...
Contacts Michelle Boykins, Advancing Justice – AAJC, 202-604-1760, Comrequests@advancingjustice-aajc.org Juan Martinez, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee, 202-558-7900, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org Andrea Dreier, North Carolina Justice Center, andrea@ncjustice.org Public and private universities have instituted race-conscious ...
Today, a divided U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Jane Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C., holding that a number of federal anti-discrimination laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, do ...
