Issue Recommendations to Gov. Leaders on Improving Accountability Systems WASHINGTON – Today eleven civil rights groups including Advancement Project, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Mexican American ...
On Thursday, November 13 at 11:00 a.m. ET, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) will host a forum to examine policies that led to the events in Ferguson. Sherrilyn ...
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, a host of national and local criminal justice, civil rights, human rights, individual liberty, faith-based, and immigrants’ rights organizations are urging the Department of Defense to ...
Litigation on the Law’s Fate in Future Elections will Continue Contact: Valerie Holford, 301-926-1298 (Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Supreme Court today affirmed the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to stay a District Court ruling ...
DETROIT, MI — In a letter sent today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and the ACLU of Michigan calls on two United Nations Special Rapporteurs in the Office of the High Commissioner ...
Statement of Ryan P. Haygood, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Attorney Who Made Closing Arguments at Trial for Plaintiff-Intervenors “Today’s decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals allowing Texas’s intentionally discriminatory photo ID law ...
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) strongly praised U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement today that Vanita Gupta has been appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil ...
