Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced today to 22.5 years in prison for second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter for killing George Floyd in May 2020. In response, NAACP Legal Defense ...
Plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), co-counsel Covington & Burling, LLP and veteran civil rights lawyer, Geraldine Sumter of Ferguson Chambers & Sumter, P.A. have reached a settlement in ...
Today, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it is suing the state of Georgia over S.B. 202, its recently-passed voter suppression law. The DOJ is charging the state with violating Section 2 of ...
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of Black and other communities of color in Dorce v. City of New York, a lawsuit challenging New York City’s Third Party ...
Today, in a bipartisan 53-40 vote, the United States Senate confirmed Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to serve on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Lisa Cylar Barrett, Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense ...
On June 22, 2021, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) sent a letter to urging Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to veto S.B. 224, H.B. 704, and H.B. 138, three restrictive voting bills ...
Yesterday, the Senate failed to advance S. 1. The For the People Act to a full floor debate. By doing so, it failed to protect the most fundamental tenet of our democracy—the right to vote. This ...
