Civil Rights Groups Urge Florida Board Of Executive Clemency Not To Further Restrict Voting Rights

Civil Rights Groups Urge Florida Board Of Executive Clemency Not To Further Restrict Voting Rights Move Would Harm Voting Fairness In A State With History Of Serious Election Problems TALLAHASSEE, FL – Four of the nation’s ...

LDF Applauds Confirmation of James E. Graves, Jr. to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

(Washington, DC) — The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds the U.S. Senate’s vote this afternoon to confirm James E. Graves, Jr. to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  ...

LDF Joins Mumia Abu-Jamal Defense Team

LDF Joins Mumia Abu-Jamal Defense Team (New York, NY) –On January 28, 2011, Mumia Abu-Jamal retained the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) to represent him in the ongoing appeal of his capital ...

LDF Continues Fight to Defend Voting Rights Act

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Presents Oral Argument in Defense of Section 5 of the VRA (New York, NY) – Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) presented oral argument ...

One Nation, Indivisible

Source: The New York Times

Fifteen years ago, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit flouted Supreme Court law when it struck down affirmative action at the University of Texas Law School. Last week, in an act ...

Louisiana Defaulting on Federal Obligation to Register Low-Income Residents

Project Vote and NAACP Legal Defense Fund Put Secretary of State Tom Schedler on Notice of Voting Rights Violations  BATON ROUGE, LA – Citing clear evidence that numerous low-income Louisiana residents have been denied the ...

LDF Launches “Redrawing the Lines” Program to Promote Participation in the Upcoming Round of Redistricting

(New York) – With the mid-term elections behind us, the nation’s attention is now turned to redistricting which will commence in many places around the country following the release of 2010 Census data. Today the ...

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