LDF Condemns Supreme Court Decision Permitting Continuation of Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement

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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court’s order that barred the government from indiscriminately profiling people while enforcing immigration laws in Los Angeles and surrounding counties. The ...

Federal Court Dismisses Challenge to South Carolina’s Curriculum Censorship Law, Budget Proviso 1.79

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Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina dismissed a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s discriminatory censorship law, Budget Proviso 1.79, in the state’s K-12 public schools. The decision is a disappointing outcome ...

LDF Strongly Opposes Consideration of Sen. Brandon Creighton for Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System 

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) expressed its strong opposition to the impending appointment of Texas Senator Brandon Creighton to Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. Sen. Creighton’s long record of harmful legislation is ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Urging First Circuit to Block Trump Executive Order

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Yesterday, the nation’s first and oldest union to represent civil service federal employees — the National Federation of Federal Employees-International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO (NFFE) — filed an amicus brief, represented by ...

LDF Mourns the Loss of Edward Still, Legendary Champion for Voting Rights

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The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) mourns the loss of Edward Still, an attorney whose legal advocacy in voting rights and redistricting transformed democracy in Alabama and across the nation. Over the course of his illustrious ...

LDF and SPLC File Amicus Brief in Support of Challenge to Oklahoma’s Classroom Censorship Law, HB 1775

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed an amicus brief in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants challenge to Oklahoma’s HB 1775, a law ...

LDF Denounces Decision to Indefinitely Extend Enhanced Federal Law Enforcement Presence in Washington, D.C.

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Yesterday, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued an executive order that indefinitely extends cooperation between the District of Columbia and a number of federal law enforcement agencies to continue their enhanced law enforcement efforts in ...

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