LDF welcomed today’s vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve the nomination of Cornelia (“Nina”) Pillard to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Pillard was one of three persons nominated by ...
Demetrius Newton, a treasured LDF cooperating attorney in Alabama, died recently at the age of 85. As as civil rights lawyer, he represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. as well as many others arrested during ...
Amid a heated debate over reducing California’s prison population, LDF and Stanford Law School’s Three Strikes Project have released a report that analyzes the impact of the historic Three Strikes Reform Act passed by California voters ...
Statement by Sherrilyn A Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of LDF LDF applauds the leadership of Benjamin Jealous, the outgoing president of the NAACP who announced today he will step down from his post as ...
On LDF’s inaugural Bloggingheads episode, Ryan Haygood debates Glen Loury of Brown University on voting rights, America’s racial history, and what a new civil rights movement looks like. Check it out!
Corpus Christi, Texas—The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) and its co-counsel law firm Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) filed a motion to join the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit as ...
The Passage of the Act Is Another Major Step Towards Ending Discriminatory Stop-And-Frisk Practices New York — Today, the City Council of New York overturned Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of the Community Safety Act. The Act includes ...
