Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Center for American Progress (CAP) launched an educational video series State Voting Rights Acts (State VRAs): Explained. More than 300 ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and ACLU of Alabama filed a preliminary injunction on behalf of a group of Alabama educators, students, and the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, asking a District Court ...
Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee), the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) notified the Louisiana secretary of state on ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Tyler Bailey of Bailey Law Firm, LLC filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, South Carolina educators, students, ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and five other civil rights organizations filed an amicus brief in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, an employment discrimination case centered on the correct application of Title ...
This week, President Trump issued a sweeping series of pardons and commutations to roughly 1,500 individuals who participated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. This misuse of clemency powers includes leaders ...
This week, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety,” which contains multiple provisions on the use of the federal death penalty. The order urges the U.S. Attorney ...
