Report analyzes impact of California’s sentencing reform bill

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 ...

LDF Congratulates Civil Rights Leader Benjamin Todd Jealous

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 ...

Ryan Haygood debates Glen Loury of Brown University on voting rights

Source: The Glenn Show

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!

LDF Clients Seek to Challenge Texas’s Discriminatory Photo ID Law

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 ...

LDF Applauds New York City Council’s Decision to Override Mayor Bloomberg’s Veto of Community Safety Act

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 ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund is Appalled at Mayor Bloomberg’s Comment that People Should be “Fingerprinted” Before Entering NYC Public Housing Residences

His remarks reflect the City’s entrenched policies and practices of treating public housing residents like prisoners in their own homes In this morning’s John Gambling radio show, Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized Davis v. City of ...

Landmark Ruling Declares NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk Tactics Violate Rights

Today, United States District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin issued a groundbreaking  decision declaring that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) implements its  controversial stop-and-frisk policy in an unconstitutional manner and violates the rights ...

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