Education and Civil Rights Groups Call for an End to Militarization of K-12 School Police UPDATE: After intense public pressure spurred by our letter to the Defense Logistics Agency, schools districts have begun returning ...
In testimony submitted today to a Senate committee reviewing militarization of state and local law enforcement, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) called for structural reforms to ensure police accountability and the ...
LDF today announced that John Paul Schnapper-Casteras has joined the organization as Special Counsel for Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy. In this newly created role, Schnapper-Casteras, known as JP, will work with LDF attorneys on ...
The second week of testimony begins today in the voter ID trial in United States v. Texas, a federal challenge to Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14. In this case with important national ...
Lauren McCauley, Detroiters Vow Resistance After Judge Rules There is No Human Right to Water, Common Dreams (Sep 30, 2014) James Turnage, No Water for You, Public State (Sep 30, 2014) Matt Helms and Joe ...
(New York)–Next week, beginning on Tuesday, September 2nd, LDF’s political participation team will start trial in Corpus Christi, Texas challenging the state’s discriminatory voter ID law (SB 14). In 2013, LDF intervened in this lawsuit, ...
Zachary Roth, Supreme Court approves Texas voter ID law, MSNBC (Oct 18, 2014) Greg Stohr, Texas Voter-ID Law Allowed by U.S. Supreme Court, Bloomberg (Oct 18, 2014) J. Christian Adams, One Last Hurrah for Texas ...
