LDF Mourns the Loss of Agnes Gund, Devoted Philanthropist and Advocate for Social Good

Read a PDF of our statement here. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened by the passing of Agnes Gund, a devoted philanthropist whose enduring commitment to racial and social justice left a lasting ...

LDF’s Archives Team Wins Society of American Archivists’ Prestigious Archival Innovator Award

The team of nine talented archivists, lawyers, librarians and support staff behind the Legal Defense Fund’s Recollection: A Civil Rights Legal Archive, is the 2025 recipient of the Archival Innovator Award given by the Society ...

LDF Strongly Urges U.S. Department of Education to Withdraw Proposed Changes to Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted public comment strongly opposing the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. The letter explains that the Department does not have ...

Federal Court Sides with LDF, Ruling Alabama County Commission Plan an Unconstitutional Racial Gerrymander

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Yesterday, in a victory for the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and our clients, a federal court in Alabama permanently blocked the Jefferson County Commission from implementing an unconstitutional redistricting plan that packs Black voters into ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Opposing National Guard Deployment in D.C.

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This week, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Trump, urging the court to grant the request for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the administration’s deployment of the ...

LDF Condemns Memoranda Targeting Memphis

Yesterday, President Trump directed the Secretary of War to request that the Governor of Tennessee deploy Tennessee’s National Guard troops to Memphis. The Memoranda also creates a federal taskforce to use aggressive and counterproductive strategies ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Opposition to Texas’ Racially Discriminatory Congressional Maps

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Today, nonprofit, nonpartisan civil rights and racial justice organizations, led by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs’ motions for preliminary injunction in League of United Latin American ...

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