LDF Condemns Trump Administration’s Mass Layoffs/Reduction in Force and Threats to U.S. Department of Education

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Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced plans to eliminate nearly half of all positions within the U.S. Department of Education, an extraordinary step toward executing the Project 2025 playbook to weaken federal civil rights enforcement and ...

LDF Condemns Targeting and Criminalization of Protesters Following Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil 

Over the past weekend, Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who has participated in campus protests and is a permanent resident of the United States, was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mr. ...

In Critical Victory for Georgia Students, Civil Rights Organizations and Diverse Advocacy Community Lead Defeat of Georgia Senate Bill 120

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In a critical victory for Georgia students, a group of civil rights organizations expressed gratitude in the defeat of SB120 in the Georgia Senate on Thursday.  The bill sought to eliminate all diversity, equity, and ...

LDF and Judge U.W. Clemon Applaud Historic Consent Decree Entered by Jefferson County, Alabama School District

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On Monday, March 3, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama approved and entered a historic Consent Decree in Stout v. Jefferson County Board of Education, a sixty-year-old school desegregation ...

Civil Rights Organizations Call on Georgia Lawmakers to Reject Senate Bill 120

Today, a group of civil rights organizations sent a letter urging Georgia lawmakers to reject Senate Bill 120 (SB120), a proposed bill before the State Legislature which seeks to ban diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility ...

Civil and Human Rights Organizations Seek Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Anti-Equity Executive Orders and Executive Order Erasing Transgender People

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Yesterday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and co-counsel Lambda Legal filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in National Urban League v. Trump, a federal lawsuit challenging three executive orders by President Trump banning diversity, ...

Civil Rights Organizations Call on U.S. Department of Education to Rescind “Dear Colleague” Letter, Cite Threats to Equal Opportunity

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Today, a group of civil rights organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education calling on the federal agency to rescind a “Dear Colleague” letter threatening to terminate federal funding to schools that ...

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