On September 23, 2024, a federal court judge in the NYPD stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement cases published a detailed report that examined the NYPD’s disciplinary system for misconduct by uniformed officers. The Discipline Report reveals ...
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement in response to the President-elect’s nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General: “It’s hard to imagine a more dangerous ...
LDF Files Brief Opposing Arkansas’s Motion for Summary Judgment in Redistricting Case Late yesterday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), O’Melveny & Myers LLP, and longtime LDF cooperating attorney Arkie Byrd filed a brief in opposition ...
Tomorrow, November 11, several student and faculty advocacy organizations and civil rights groups will testify at Monday’s Texas Senate Higher Education Subcommittee hearing on the topic “Stopping DEI to Strengthen the Texas Workforce” to underscore ...
On Nov. 7, a New York State Supreme Court trial judge in Orange County issued an opinion striking down the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA). Today, the Legal Defense Fund ...
On Thursday, the St. John the Baptist Parish School Board voted to close Fifth Ward Elementary School before the 2025-26 school year. In a proposal, the School Board is calling for the children who currently ...
Following the 2024 general election, Janai Nelson, Legal Defense Fund (LDF)’s President and Director-Counsel, issued the following statement: “Today, we face a glaring reality: the actions of the past several years have tested our democracy ...
