Ask A Candidate: Vice-Presidential Debate 2016

Our country faces profound and important challenges in the years ahead. As the vice-presidential candidates prepare to take to the podiums for their debate, there are many essential questions anyone seeking our nation’s second highest ...

LDF Senior Counsel Leah Aden Comments on Virginia Governor’s Actions to Restore Voting Rights

Source: Time

How Hillary Clinton’s Allies Are Expanding the Vote Behind the Scenes Leah Aden, senior counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, called [Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s] restoration of voting rights “courageous.” “This is a key ...

LDF’s Christina Swarns Argues Buck v. Davis Before the Supreme Court

On October 5, Christina Swarns, LDF’s Director of Litigation, will present oral argument before the Supreme Court in Buck v. Davis, a case that raises extraordinary issues of racial bias in capital punishment sentencing. In 1997, ...

Vote for LDF in CREDO’s October Donation Challenge

Exciting news! LDF has been selected to be a CREDO Donations Recipients for October. Each month, CREDO selects three nonprofit organizations representing a range of progressive causes to receive a portion of its revenue. More ...

LDF Statement on California Governor Restoring Voting Rights to Over 50,000 Former Felons

Today Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 2466 into law, which restores voting rights to over 50,000 Californians with non-violent felony convictions. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson offered the following statement:  “Today Governor ...

Ask A Candidate: Presidential Debate 2016

Our country faces profound and important challenges in the years ahead. As the presidential candidates prepare to take to the podiums for the first debate, there are many essential questions anyone seeking our nation’s highest ...

Texas Petition to U.S. Supreme Court Is an End Run Around the Law

Today, the State of Texas petitioned the United States Supreme Court to take up its appeal of a ruling that found that its voter suppression law is discriminatory. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys who ...

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