Federal Trial Concludes in Challenge to Florida Law That Undermines Voting Rights Restoration

Trial Outcome Will Impact the Right to Vote for Hundreds of Thousands of Floridians TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal trial that will impact the right to vote for hundreds of thousands of Floridians concluded today ...

LDF Urges Alabama State Leaders to Ensure the Distribution of Crucial School Meals

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter stressing the necessity for school meals to be provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to the Alabama State Superintendent of Education, State Board ...

Civil Rights Organizations Call for Defeat of Cory Wilson’s Nomination to Fifth Circuit

WASHINGTON, D.C. – National and state civil rights organizations today announced their vehement opposition to Senate confirmation of Cory Wilson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Last week, the Senate announced ...

LDF Condemns the NYPD’s Disparate Social Distancing Enforcement Following Multiple Arrests of Black Residents This Weekend

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) strongly condemns the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) targeting of and excessive use of force in Black and Brown communities in connection with the enforcement ...

National Rights Groups Call for Pause in Judicial Confirmations Process

Washington, D.C.— Forty pro-democracy and civil rights groups today joined in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, urging them to halt the process of federal judicial nominations and confirmations ...

Civil Rights Groups Sue Government for Critical Information on Trump’s Muslim and African Ban

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State Department, CBP Illegally Withholding Records on Immigration Ban Waivers and Purported “Worldwide Review” Washington, DC — Today, Muslim Advocates and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sued the U.S. State Department ...

LDF, SPLC, and ADAP File Federal Lawsuit Challenging Alabama’s Lack of Safe and Accessible Voting During COVID-19 Pandemic

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF),the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed a federal lawsuit against Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, Secretary ...

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