Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with co-counsel Shania King, filed a petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, calling for a rehearing of a case where a correction ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2024 Troi Barnes, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Emily Berkowitz, ACLU National, media@aclu.org Keisha Williams, ACLU-NC, kmwilliams@acluofnc.org Gretchen Engel, The Center for Death Penalty Litigation, gretchen@cdpl.org RALEIGH, N.C. – Attorneys ...
In response to County election departments across Texas receiving a recent flood of formal challenges by third-party actors questioning whether voter registrations are valid, LDF and partners at the Texas Civil Rights Project, CLC, and ...
Today, LDF and civil rights and voting rights groups sent a letter to Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, the Board of Registrars for all 67 counties, and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall informing them ...
Today, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation to establish the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot as a national monument on the 116th anniversary of the brutal attack that galvanized members of the Black ...
Today marks ten years since Michael Brown was killed by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. In response to this, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Director of Strategic Initiatives Jin Hee Lee issued the following statement: “Our ...
Last week, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Petteway v. Galveston County that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not permit multiracial coalitions of voters to challenge racially discriminatory redistricting plans. ...
