Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) recognizes Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, over two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, to deliver the news to over 250,000 ...
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in United States v. Skrmetti, affirming a lower court’s decision to uphold a Tennessee law banning medically necessary gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. The court found ...
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Associate Director-Counsel Todd A. Cox issued the following statement in response to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrest of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander inside an immigration courthouse: “The ...
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson issued the following statement to mark ten years since the tragic racial hate crime mass murder of a Black pastor and parishioners by a white gunman at ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. Minnesota State Representative, and former Speaker of the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed this weekend in their homes by a gunman who ...
Today, LDF sent a letter urging state and local elected officials to take all available measures and precautions to safeguard the rights and safety of people protesting in your community. In the past week, peaceful ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted comments to the Department of Energy, urging the agency to reverse course on attempts to rescind regulations that prohibit discrimination. This letter comes after the agency issued a ...
