Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the NAACP, and Cooley LLP filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the petitioners in Carter v. United States and Rutherford v. United States, two cases ...
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, media@aclu.org, 925-819-0555 Troi Barnes, tbarnes@naacpldf.org, 929-736-1528 NEW ORLEANS — In a victory for Black voters and democracy in Louisiana, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed in full the district ...
Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama declined to issue a preliminary injunction to block the enforcement of Alabama’s discriminatory censorship law, SB 129, in the state’s public colleges and universities. ...
Today, President Trump announced the deployment of the D.C. National Guard and that he would work with state governors to deploy other National Guard units to Washington, D.C. The President issued an executive order claiming ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. A federal court has unanimously ordered that Alabama must continue to use an independently drawn congressional map for the rest of the decade. This court-ordered map includes two districts ...
On August 18, 2025 the Legal Defense Fund; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated; the Barbara Jordan Leadership Institute; the Houston Area Urban League; Black Voters Matter; and Friendship-West Baptist Church submitted testimony to the Texas ...
Sixty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) into law, enshrining protections for voters who were historically denied access to the ballot box. The VRA was one ...
