Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and coalition partners sent a letter to the Mississippi Standing Joint Legislative Committee on Reapportionment and the Standing Joint Congressional Redistricting Committee regarding their obligations ...
Today, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt granted clemency to Julius Jones, a Black man who was scheduled to be executed by the state this afternoon for a murder conviction that is riddled with doubt. While Gov. ...
On November 18, 2021, LDF filed an amicus brief in Contreras et al v. Illinois State Board of Elections et al. This case, originally filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), ...
Today, for the first time in a decade and for only the 24th time in United States history, a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to censure Representative Paul Gosar, who recently ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF), working with Rights Behind Bars, submitted an appellate response brief on behalf of LDF’s client Marcus Briceno, who suffered unreasonable force at the hands ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today announced that President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill will step down from her role in the spring of 2022 after nearly a decade leading the organization through its ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Rights Behind Bars, a legal advocacy organization for incarcerated people, submitted an amicus brief in Mack v. Yost et al. The case, which is ...
