Contact: Legal Defense Fund: media@naacpldf.org Fair Fight Action: Max@FairFightAction.com Southern Poverty Law Center: press@splcenter.org At a time when voting rights and fair elections are under coordinated attack nationwide, Georgia lawmakers are taking action. Today, Georgia ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) mourns the loss of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the legendary civil rights leader, politician, advocate, and ordained minister whose powerful voice galvanized generations in the fight for civil rights, ...
Trial began today in Harris v. DeSoto County in federal court in the Northern District of Mississippi, where the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is challenging a racially discriminatory electoral map in DeSoto County. LDF, along ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted a public comment to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in response to the agency’s proposal to gut regulations that help ensure lenders, landlords, other ...
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, an irresponsible proposal designed to severely curb voters’ freedom to access elections. The SAVE America Act would functionally dismantle online ...
Contact: press@endqiny.org Governor Hochul’s budget and proposed immigration package would codify qualified immunity in New York for the first time. A coalition of civil rights, community, legal, and advocacy organizations, along with legislators, is demanding ...
MEDIA CONTACTS Legal Defense Fund: media@naacpldf.org ACLU: media@aclu-md.org Campaign Legal Center: media@campaignlegalcenter.org Common Cause: mmajikas@commoncause.org General Assembly Must Act to Empower Voters Now Amid Federal Attacks on Voting Rights and an Affordability Crisis Today, a ...