Source: Slate “A contentious conversation over busing as a tool to desegregate schools began last week during the first debates of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary season and has continued onto the campaign trail this ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), joined the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and 56 of the nation’s premier civil rights organizations as amici curiae ...
LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined Joy Reid on MSNBC’s AM Joy to discuss the Supreme Court decisions in this week’s Census and Gerrymandering cases.
Federal Lawsuit Filed Immediately After Governor Signed Bill Into Law GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law filed a ...
Today, civil rights groups secured a critical victory against the Trump administration’s attempt to manipulate the Census to the detriment of people of color and to the accurate enumerations of the American public. In a ...
The U.S. Supreme Court today in Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek ignored its own precedent established in three prior cases in holding that challenges to partisan gerrymandering are nonjusticiable and cannot be ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) is pleased to learn the city’s Consent Decree monitoring team is reviewing a recent incident involving an arrest of two youth in Cherry Hill. We urge the ...
