LDF Issues Statement on House Passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

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Today, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 (H.R. 1280). The bill now moves onto the United States Senate. In reaction to the vote, ...

LDF Sends Letter in Support of Vanita Gupta to Senate Judiciary Committee

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin and Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley expressing the unequivocal support of LDF for the ...

Senator Coons, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement, and Conservative Leaders United in Support of Vanita Gupta for Justice Department

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WASHINGTON – Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), leading civil rights and law enforcement organizations, and conservative leaders hosted a press call today urging the Senate to confirm Vanita Gupta as the next associate attorney general at ...

LDF and SPLC Action Submit Testimony Opposing Georgia Senate Bill 241

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) and Southern Poverty Law Center Action (SPLC Action) submitted testimony in the Georgia Senate Ethics Committee opposing Senate Bill 241 (S.B. 241) which would create ...

LDF Submits Testimony in the Maryland State Legislature Supporting the Police-Free Schools Act

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc (LDF) submitted written testimony to the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee in support of House Bill (HB) 1089, the Police-Free Schools Act, which prohibits local school systems ...

Harvard Student and Alumni Organizations React to SFFA’s Appeal to Supreme Court in Lawsuit Challenging Harvard’s Race Conscious Admissions

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Today, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), an organization founded by conservative activist Ed Blum, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court in their latest bid to overturn the Court’s ...

Civil Rights Groups Respond to Students for Fair Admissions’ Decision to Sue Yale University

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Today, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), an organization founded by conservative activist Ed Blum. filed a lawsuit challenging Yale University’s holistic, race-conscious admissions policies, seeking to revive a case that was voluntarily dismissed by the ...

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