Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the following statement: “Today at his confirmation hearing to serve as Deputy Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen refused to say that ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today joined an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the doctrine of qualified immunity, which shields government agents from liability for misconduct. The ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to advance the nomination of Kenneth Lee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Lisa Cylar Barrett, Policy Director at LDF, issued the following statement: ...
Yesterday the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with the Florida State Conference of the NAACP, submitted a letter urging the Florida House of Representatives’ State Affairs Committee to oppose House Bill ...
Leading civil rights organizations and fair courts experts hosted a telephone press briefing today to discuss Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s brazen partisan power grab in his latest attempt to change the rules on debate ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. filed an amicus brief in Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis, a significant Supreme Court case about when federal courts can hear employment-discrimination lawsuits under Title VII ...
Method of Electing its City Council Violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Today, a U.S. District Court in Alabama found that the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.’s (LDF) plaintiffs—local Black voters ...
