Today, LDF sent a second letter urging the Rhode Island General Assembly’s Special Commission on Reapportionment to end prison-based gerrymandering. The letter asks the Commission to reallocate all incarcerated people to their home communities for ...
On December 29, 2021, LDF Deputy Director of Litigation Leah C. Aden, South Carolina NAACP President Brenda Murphy, ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Somil Trivedi and ACLU of South Carolina Director of Legal Advocacy submitted joint ...
Lawsuit: Gerrymandered State House Map Intentionally Discriminates Against Black Communities COLUMBIA, S.C. — Civil rights groups have filed a legal challenge over South Carolina’s new racially gerrymandered state House district map, charging it intentionally discriminates ...
Today, former police officer Kimberly Potter was found guilty on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April 2021 fatal shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. In response, Puneet Cheema, NAACP Legal ...
Today, the Biden administration announced a new group of nominees to the judiciary, including Ms. J. Michelle Childs for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Ms. Nancy G. Abudu ...
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), in partnership with Justice in Aging and Mobilization for Justice, filed an amicus brief in Dorce v. City of New York, a case before the U.S. District Court ...
Today, the Biden administration announced that it would extend its pause on student loan repayments — which were scheduled to resume on February 1, 2022 — for an additional 90 days. Citing the continuing hardships ...
