Today, the U.S. Congress passed the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (FY26 NDAA), which includes sweeping provisions rolling back existing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives across the Department of Defense and prohibiting ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a public comment calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to withdraw a proposed rule limiting federal enforcement to stop credit discrimination. The proposal would also rescind ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the ACLU of Alabama announced that plaintiffs in Simon v. Ivey, including Alabama public university faculty and students and the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, have filed ...
Read a full PDF of our statement here. This week, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief, or friend of the court brief, in Tangipa v. Newsom. The amicus brief explained that, based on ...
Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) gutted regulations that help ensure federal funding recipients don’t maintain discriminatory policies against Black communities and other groups that experience discrimination based on race, color, or national origin. Specifically, ...
Immigrants’ rights advocates will argue critical case before the Supreme Court later this term. Courts have uniformly rejected President Trump’s attempts to strip away a core constitutional protection and blocked his birthright citizenship executive order ...
Today, the Trump Administration has deployed federal agents to New Orleans, Louisiana and has indicated National Guard troops will soon be deployed. This follows federal National Guard deployments in other states, including Washington D.C., Memphis, ...
