Civil Rights Groups File Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Block Anti-Protest Law, H.B.1

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and Community Justice Project (CJP), with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP serving as counsel, filed a motion ...

LDF Issues Statement on President Biden’s Voting Rights Address

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Today, President Joe Biden delivered remarks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, regarding the urgent need to protect voting rights in the United States, especially as increasingly suppressive legislation is being introduced and passed by state legislators throughout ...

LDF Submits Testimony in Opposition to Two Texas Voter Suppression Bills

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF)  submitted testimony in opposition to two omnibus voter suppression bills introduced in the Texas special legislative session that began Thursday, July 8, 2021. Texas House Bill ...

Civil Rights Leaders Meet with President Biden and Vice President Harris

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Don Owens, Lawyers’ Committee, dowens@lawyerscommittee.org, 202.934.1880 Juan Martinez, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org, 212.956.2200 Stephen Peters, The Leadership Conference, peters@civilrights.org, 202.466.1887 Niambé Tomlinson, National Urban League, ntomlinson@nul.org, 585.576-4406 Angelo Greco, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation/Black ...

LDF Condemns Texas Special Session Called by Gov. Abbott to Force Passage of Voter Suppression and Anti-Free Speech Bills

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Today, the 87th Texas legislature started a special session called by Governor Greg Abbott for the explicit purpose of forcing through measures that target Black and Brown Texans. Among these harmful measures is H.B. 3, ...

LDF, ACLU of Michigan, and Covington & Burling File Amicus Brief Defending Black Detroit Homeowners’ Right to Due Process in Challenging Unfair Tax Assessments

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, and the law firm of Covington & Burlington LLP submitted an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs-appellants ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Ohio Supreme Court Case Urging Relevance of Racial Prejudice at Criminal Suppression Hearings

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Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and counsel Squire Patton Boggs filed an amicus brief in support of David Hansard, a Black man who was stopped and arrested in Ohio. The officer ...

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