Governor Cuomo Executive Order Designating Eric Schneiderman as Special Prosecutor Is A Step in the Right Direction

For years, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) has joined the families of victims in calls for accountability in investigations of deaths in police custody. Tuesday’s announcement of a tentative framework designating Attorney General ...

LDF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision on Drug Lethal Injection

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is deeply disappointed that the United States Supreme Court has upheld the lethal injection cocktail used by Oklahoma to carry out executions. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Glossip v. Gross ...

LDF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision Upholding Marriage Equality for All

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Constitution’s promise of equal protection requires states to recognize the right of same-sex couples to marry.  In Obergefell v. Hodges, Justice Kennedy announced that “the right to ...

LDF Statement on Supreme Court’s Decision in King v. Burwell

Today, the Supreme Court rejected a dangerous challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  In King v. Burwell, the Court rejected a claim that the ACA does not authorize the federal government to provide financial ...

LDF Praises U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision to Uphold Disparate Impact Protections of the Fair Housing Act

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is incredibly pleased that the United States Supreme Court today has reaffirmed core principles of fairness and equality by clearly and unambiguously recognizing both the legality and the importance of the “disparate impact” protections of the Fair ...

LDF Statement in Support of Voting Rights Advancement Act

The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) strongly supports the Voting Rights Advancement Act (the Advancement Act), introduced today in the Senate and the House. The bill represents a welcome effort by Members ...

LDF Statement on Governor Haley’s Call to Remove the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina State Capitol

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s call to remove the confederate flag from the state capitol is a welcomed and long overdue act of responsive leadership that is much needed in the Palmetto State.  The NAACP ...

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