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 ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Reed Smith LLP, and The Arc filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Houston Area Urban League, Houston Justice, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and ...
Today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed voter suppression bill, S.B. 1, into law. The bill passed the Texas House and Senate during a second special legislative session called by the Governor after the regular session ...
