Today marks 10 years since the Supreme Court’s decision to significantly weaken essential protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) in Shelby County v. Holder. In a decision Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likened ...
Today, Dekalb County District Attorney Shelby Boston announced that her office is withdrawing from all cases involving protestors who were recently arrested for opposing the Atlanta Training Center widely known as Cop City. These cases ...
Yesterday, Michigan legislators introduced Senate Bills 401, 402, 403, and 404 (“Michigan Voting Rights Act” or “MIVRA”), a comprehensive state voting rights act that will expand access and strengthen protections against voting discrimination for communities ...
Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm Natasha Merle to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Ms. Merle has served at LDF since 2016, as Assistant Counsel, Senior ...
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded its investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD), and found that there is reasonable cause to believe that the MPD has engaged in a pattern or practice ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Florida, and Ballard Spahr filed a brief urging the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to uphold a preliminary ...
Today, in the first court ruling of its kind, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) vacated the convictions of a Black man of Muslim faith and ordered him a new trial, after finding that his ...
