On November 13, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a first-of-its-kind Code of Conduct for Supreme Court justices. The document establishes ethical rules and principles for members of the country’s highest court and was signed ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released Police and Protests: The Inequity of Police Responses to Racial Justice Protests, a new research brief showing that, during summer 2020, police were more ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed an amicus brief in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on behalf of Warrens ...
Media Contacts Legal Defense Fund (LDF) / media@naacpldf.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National / isarda-sorensen@aclu.org, 347-514-3984 Ella Wiley, ACLU National / ewiley@aclu.org, 925-819-0555 NEW ORLEANS – The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today agreed with a ...
On November 7, 2023, the United States Senate confirmed the 150th judicial nominee of the Biden administration, marking another historic achievement in filling vacancies on the federal bench. The judges appointed by President Biden represent ...
Yesterday, President Biden issued an executive order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). The order builds on the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights that the Biden administration issued last year, and ...
Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that solidifies the rights of Black voters to have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice to the Louisiana Supreme Court. The ruling ...
