Yesterday, President Trump issued an Executive Order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education (ED), instructing Secretary McMahon to facilitate the closure of the federal agency. This action, based on disinformation, comes after the Trump ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and The Arc of the U.S., today applauded a decision delivered Tuesday by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas that ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today denounced President Trump’s unprecedented and dangerous speech at the Department of Justice on Friday. LDF President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement. “The Justice Department headquarters stands ...
Last night, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Tyler Bailey of Bailey Law Firm, LLC filed a preliminary injunction on behalf of South Carolina educators, students, author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, ...
Recently, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), alongside Disability Rights Arkansas, the ACLU of Arkansas, Professor Omavi Shukur of the University of Maryland, and counsel from Squire Patton Boggs, reached a settlement with the State of ...
Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced plans to eliminate nearly half of all positions within the U.S. Department of Education, an extraordinary step toward executing the Project 2025 playbook to weaken federal civil rights enforcement and ...
Over the past weekend, Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who has participated in campus protests and is a permanent resident of the United States, was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mr. ...
