(Houston, TX, Thursday, November 21, 2013) – Today, 27 Evangelical Christian leaders across Texas and the United States are calling on Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson to allow a new, fair sentencing hearing for ...
Filmmaker Charles Nuckolls‘ film about LDF’s work over this past year premiered at our annual National Equal Justice Dinner. In particular, it highlighted our ongoing work to protect all Americans’ right to vote. In the film, ...
LDF applauded today’s vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee to report favorably the nomination of Debo Adegbile to be the next Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. “We are one step closer to the ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments today in Fisher v. University of Texas, following the Supreme Court’s decision this past June in which it declined to end the University’s race-conscious admissions ...
On November 5, 2013, Sherrilyn Ifill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and the Courts. The hearing was entitled, “Changing the Rules: Will Limiting the Scope of Civil Discovery Diminish Accountability and ...
On October 31, 2013, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit took the shocking and extraordinary step of removing United States District Judge Shira Scheindlin from presiding ...
The Chairs and Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Leslie Proll, Director of the Washington D.C. Office of the NAACP Legal Defense ...
