Congressional Tri-Caucus Calls on Senate to Confirm Rep. Mel Watt as FHFA Director

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 ...

LDF supports nomination of Mel Watt to Federal Housing Finance Authority

Today, we are asking the Senate to do what it has done time and again, and that is to confirm one of its own colleagues – a fellow sitting Member of Congress – to a ...

LDF is thrilled to receive award from FALDEF

LDF is honored and humbled to receive an award  from the Filipino American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (FALDEF) at their first Gala and Awards night. We will be named among a host of other ...

Christina Swarns visits cast of “A Time to Kill”

Christina Swarns, Interim Director of Litigation and Director of the Criminal Justice Practice at LDF attended a performance of the new Broadway adaptation of “A Time to Kill,” which is based on John Grisham’s bestselling ...

Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Challenge to Michigan’s Proposal 2

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, a challenge to Michigan’s Proposal 2. Mark Rosenbaum, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, argued the case before ...

Listen to Vincent Southerland’s Oral Argument in 6th Circuit

On Wednesday, LDF’s Criminal Justice team traveled to Cincinnati to hear Vincent Southerland argue for prisoners serving unfair sentences under the racially biased and discredited 100:1 crack/powder sentencing disparity. Listen to Vincent’s argument here. Read ...

LDF welcomes our new COO and General Counsel Kevin Keenan

We are thrilled to announce that Kevin Keenan will join LDF as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel after serving as the executive director of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties for eights years.  ...

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