Today, a federal judge declined to dismiss charges against U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver related to her efforts to exercise congressional oversight at an immigration detention facility in New Jersey. Rep. McIver is currently charged in ...
Today, the state of Oklahoma will execute Tremane Wood, a Black man, unless Governor Kevin Stitt or the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes. Mr. Wood is currently on death row despite compelling evidence of his innocence ...
UPDATE: On Nov. 13, minutes before Mr. Wood was scheduled to be executed, Gov. Stitt accepted the Pardon and Parole Board’s recommendation and granted clemency to Mr. Wood. On Nov. 12, LDF sent a ...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a policy requiring passports to display an individual’s biological sex at birth. The case, Orr v. Trump, centers on whether the U.S. ...
On Nov. 3, LDF submitted comment to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) strongly opposing the Interim Final Rule (IFR) on Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise in Airport Concessions Program Implementation Modifications. ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal court today issued a decisive ruling in League of Women Voters Education Fund v. Trump, permanently blocking a provision of President Trump’s March voting executive order that sought to add ...
On Wednesday, former Illinois Deputy Sheriff Sean Grayson was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 for support. In response, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Associate Director-Counsel ...
