MEDIA CONTACT: Troi Barnes, media@naacpldf.org Emily Berkowitz, eberkowitz@aclu.org Hasson Bacote is one of 15 people on North Carolina’s death row who had their sentences commuted by the Governor. RALEIGH, NC – The American Civil Liberties ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today condemned the brutal killing of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death by a group of corrections officers at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York. LDF President ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) mourns the loss of President Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States. A lifelong champion of human rights and powerful proponent of racial justice in America, President Carter ...
Read a PDF of our press statement here. The Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released a special edition law journal in collaboration with the Vanderbilt Social Justice Reporter (VSJR), Voting Rights in ...
Read a PDF of our press statement here. Today, President Biden granted commutations to nearly all persons who were facing execution on federal death row. In response, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson ...
ACLU of Michigan amullen@aclumich.org; 313-400-8562 Promote the Vote media@promotethevotemi.com Legal Defense Fund media@naacpldf.org Campaign Legal Center bquinn@campaignlegalcenter.org The clock ran out on the Michigan Voting Rights Act, leaving voters of color vulnerable to incoming anti-democracy ...
This week, the U.S. House of Representative’s bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) released a report outlining policy proposals and recommendations for the regulation of AI. The report acknowledges that AI can lead to ...
