Today, the Department of Justice responded to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) call to cease funding law enforcement departments with discriminatory practices. DOJ will institute a process to prevent funds from being ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the Michigan Board of State Canvassers urging them to reject the proposed summary of purpose for the “Secure MI Vote” initiative ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released its highly anticipated Democracy Defended report, which documents and analyzes election-related activities undertaken by LDF during the 2020 election season, provides documentation of barriers ...
Today, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the conclusion of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) review of the use of monitors in settlement agreements and consent decrees involving state and local governments, which it began in ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and a group of local Louisiana partners sent a letter urging the Caddo Parish Commission to support the adoption of an additional early voting site. ...
Today, in a major victory for civil rights and racial justice advocates, a federal judge granted a request made by civil rights groups to preliminarily enjoin enforcement of a key provision of H.B.1, Florida’s anti-protest ...
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision in Ferguson v. McDonough, permitting Joseph Ferguson’s civil rights claims to proceed. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF), working ...
