LDF Urges Department of Energy to Uphold Nondiscrimination Policies for Federal Grantees

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted comments to the Department of Energy, urging the agency to reverse course on attempts to rescind regulations that prohibit discrimination.  This letter comes after the agency issued a ...

LDF Denounces Military Parade to Honor President Trump

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Tomorrow, on Flag Day and the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, a $45 million parade will be held in Washington, D.C., to celebrate President Trump’s birthday. In response, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and ...

LDF Condemns Forced Removal and Detention of U.S. Senator Padilla

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Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement in response to the forced removal and handcuffing of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla at a Department of Homeland Security press conference on ...

Federal Appellate Court Allows Black Residents to Continue Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Discriminatory Water Billing Policies in City of Cleveland

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Yesterday, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that Black homeowners and residents who have been impacted by the city of Cleveland’s discriminatory water billing policies may continue their federal ...

Civil Rights Organizations Issue Joint Statement on the Los Angeles Immigration Protest

Read a PDF of our statement here. The leaders of eight legacy Civil Rights organizations released the following joint statement in response to the current administration’s immigration raids and the responsive protests in the Los ...

District Court Rejects Federal Challenge to Arkansas Congressional Map: Eastern District of Arkansas Court Finds Lack of Evidence that Map is a Racial Gerrymander and is Racially Dilutive

Read a PDF of our statement here.  After years of litigation, a three-judge federal panel granted Defendant’s summary judgment motion in Christian Ministerial Alliance, et al. v. John Thurston, unanimously ruling that the 2021 enacted ...

LDF Condemns President Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Attempt to Curb Constitutionally Protected Protests Against Aggressive ICE Raids

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President Trump issued a memoranda deploying at least 2,000 National Guard troops to California in response to protests against aggressive immigration raids in the Los Angeles area. At one location, SEIU United Service Workers West ...

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