The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) unequivocally condemns the series of terroristic threats made against historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) this week. These threats prompted lockdowns, class cancellations, and widespread fear at institutions including Hampton ...
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement in response to the fatal shooting of self-described right-wing activist and media personality Charlie Kirk: “Today’s fatal attack on Charlie Kirk is ...
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court’s order that barred the government from indiscriminately profiling people while enforcing immigration laws in Los Angeles and surrounding counties. The ...
Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina dismissed a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s discriminatory censorship law, Budget Proviso 1.79, in the state’s K-12 public schools. The decision is a disappointing outcome ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) expressed its strong opposition to the impending appointment of Texas Senator Brandon Creighton to Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. Sen. Creighton’s long record of harmful legislation is ...
Yesterday, the nation’s first and oldest union to represent civil service federal employees — the National Federation of Federal Employees-International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO (NFFE) — filed an amicus brief, represented by ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) mourns the loss of Edward Still, an attorney whose legal advocacy in voting rights and redistricting transformed democracy in Alabama and across the nation. Over the course of his illustrious ...
