Civil and voting rights organizations scored two significant wins for Georgia voters when they secured preliminary injunctions that would ease burdensome birthdate requirement for casting absentee ballots and allow “line relief” for voters waiting in ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with Black Voters Matter Fund, Georgia Muslim Voter Project, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (“NAPAWF”), Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (“GALEO”), Barred Business, Rep Georgia Institute Inc. ...
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 ...
