Last week, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a congressional map that intentionally diminishes Black voting power. This will be North Carolina’s fifth congressional map to be enacted in this decade, and the Governor has ...
Along with the ACLU, ACLU District of Columbia, Brennan Center for Justice, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC, LDF submitted a powerful comment to the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission about a request to amend ...
On Friday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Diemert v. City of Seattle, an employment discrimination case centering on the correct application of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of ...
Groups Call for City Council Passage of Intro. 798 to Eliminate the Database The G.A.N.G.S. Coalition — alongside advocates, legal experts, elected officials, and directly impacted New Yorkers — held a press conference outside New ...
LOUISVILLE, KY – After five years, the ACLU of Kentucky, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP (ECBAWM) reached a settlement in Attica Scott, et. al. ...
Press Contacts: Alejandra Lopez, Redmond Haskins, The Legal Aid Society, ailopez@legal-aid.org rhaskins@legal-aid.org Troi Barnes, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Sarai Bejarano,Latino Justice, media@latinojustice.org William Owen, STOP, william.owen@stopspying.org Report Confirms Persistent Racial Disparities, Policy Failures, and Need ...
Today, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais, a case about equal representation for Black voters in Louisiana and the role of race ...
