Milligan Plaintiffs Denounce Alabama’s Congressional Map that Violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Supreme Court Order

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Plaintiffs respond to the Alabama Legislature passing another congressional map that lacks a second majority-Black district, in direct violation of federal law and the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Legislature ...

Civil Rights Groups Send Letter Opposing American Confidence in Elections Act and Urge Congress to Protect and Expand Voting Access

Today, LDF and a broad coalition of civil rights organizations sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration expressing opposition to the Americans Confidence in Elections Act (ACE Act). Rather than ...

LDF Denounces Supreme Court Decision to Strike Down Student Debt Relief

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Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling in Biden v. Nebraska, striking down the Biden administration’s plan to provide relief to student loan borrowers under the HEROES Act. The Court dismissed the other student debt ...

LDF Condemns Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Certain Commercial Businesses to Discriminate Against Same-Sex Couples

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Today, on the final day of Pride month, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, ruling that the Petitioner, the owner of a website design studio, has a ...

In An Alarming Departure from Long-Settled Precedent, U.S. Supreme Court Holds Harvard and UNC’s Admissions Practices Unconstitutional

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Today, the Supreme Court bowed to pressure from anti-civil rights activists, finding that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s affirmative action programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This radical decision ...

LDF Welcomes Karla McKanders as New Director of LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced that Karla McKanders has been appointed as the new director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute, the multidisciplinary research and advocacy center within LDF that was launched in 2015.  ...

LDF Applauds Supreme Court’s Rejection of Independent State Legislature Theory

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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the anti-democratic independent state legislature (ISL) theory in Moore v. Harper. ISL theory in its most extreme interpretation gives state legislatures full control of elections and voting laws, with ...

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