LDF Statement on Senate Confirmation of Circuit Court Nominee Andrew Oldham

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The Senate voted today to confirm Andrew Oldham to a lifetime appointment on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In May, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the ...

Civil Rights Attorneys Push Back on NYPD Objections to Stop-and-Frisk Reforms

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Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York   Last night, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and unconstitutional further urged the ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Urging North Carolina Supreme Court to Address Race Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases

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  LDF Files Amicus Brief Urging North Carolina Supreme Court to Address Race Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases Brief Calls for Defendants to Receive New Sentences or Have Chance to Challenge Claims of Racial Bias Under North ...

LDF’s Janai Nelson Discusses Kavanaugh’s #SCOTUS Nomination on MSNBC’s AM Joy with Joy Reid

Source: MSNBC's AM Joy

  LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson joined Joy Reid on AM Joy with Matthew Miller, a former Director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice, to talk about Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme ...

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses SCOTUS Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show

Source: The Rachel Maddow Show

LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill discusses Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and the upcoming confirmation process with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.

LDF’s Todd A. Cox examines Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination on HillTV

By: HillTV Source: HillTV   LDF’S Todd A. Cox joined HillTV’s morning show “Rising” to discuss Brett Kavanuagh’s Supreme Court nomination with Buck Sexton, Krystal Ball, and Carrie Severino.

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill speaks about Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes.

Source: MSNBC

LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill discusses the upcoming Supreme Court nominee and what the confirmation of a new justice means for our nation with Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s All in with Chris Hayes.  

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