In Light of Recent Sexual Assault Allegations Against Kavanaugh, LDF Renews Call for Senate Judiciary to Postpone Confirmation Vote

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New York, New York – In light of recent sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill renewed LDF’s call for the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

Civil and Worker Rights Groups File Amicus Brief Defending EEOC Guidance on Use of Criminal Background Checks in Employment

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), along with the National Employment Law Project(“NELP”), Texas State Conference of the NAACP, and Beverly Harrison, a worker once fired because of a criminal conviction, filed an amicus brief in the ...

LDF Sends Joint Letter to Texas Secretary of State Regarding Voter Eligibility Challenges & Warning Against Voter Suppression

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) along with the Texas Civil Rights Project, Texas State Conference of the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League of South Texas, Texoma, and Austin sent a letter to the ...

LDF Urges Supreme Court to Apply Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause to the States

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September 11, 2018 | The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court arguing that the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of excessive fines applies to the states. The ...

LDF Mourns the Loss of Longtime Board Member Jay Topkis

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the passing of Jay Topkis, a former member of LDF’s Board of Directors who advised LDF on more than 21 cases between 1967 and 1988. ...

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses the Confirmation Hearings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh on The Tom Joyner Morning Show

By: The Tom Joyner Morning Show   Source: The Tom Joyner Morning Show   Jacque Reid talks to Sherrilyn Ifill, President & Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund about Donald Trump appointing Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court.

LDF’s Sherillyn Ifill Joins the AMJoy Show with Joy Reid to Discuss Judge Kavanaugh’s Upcoming Confirmation

By: AM Joy Source: MSNBC’s AM Joy   President and Director-Counsel Sherillyn Ifill Joins the AMJoy Show with Joy Reid to discuss Judge Kavanaugh’s upcoming confirmation.

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