LDF Sends Follow-up Letters to South Carolina House and Senate Redistricting Subcommittees Urging Transparency in the Redistricting Process

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and partner organizations sent letters to the South Carolina House Redistricting Ad Hoc Committee and Senate Judiciary Redistricting Subcommittee to reiterate concerns with the Subcommittees’ failure ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Texas Jury Discrimination Case

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Broadnax v. Lumpkin supporting Mr. Broadnax’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court review a Fifth Circuit decision that would prevent ...

Civil Rights Organizations Respond to Congressional Failure on Policing Reform

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Leading civil rights organizations released the following joint statement after bipartisan negotiations around the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act were ended: “It is absolutely unacceptable that more than a year after George Floyd was ...

LDF Issues Statement on the Failure to Advance the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021

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Today, members of the United States Senate failed to reach an agreement on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021. In response, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief in New York Gun Safety Case Before the United States Supreme Court

This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the National Urban League filed an amicus brief in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, which asks whether a New York gun ...

LDF Joins Amicus Brief in Mississippi Abortion Rights Case Now Before the U.S. Supreme Court

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This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined an amicus brief filed by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in ...

LDF Issues Statement on Treatment of Haitian Asylum Seekers at U.S. Border

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Over the last few days, Haitian migrants near the southern border of Texas have faced heightened and shocking abuse from U.S. Border Patrol agents while attempting to seek asylum in the United States. Photos show ...

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