Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Legal Defense Fund (LDF) alumnus and long-serving civil rights attorney Dale Ho to the Southern District of New York. In November 2021, LDF sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary ...
LDF, Community Change Action, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP, the National Urban League, and UnidosUS sent a letter urging members of Congress to pass the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) ...
Today, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law “An Act Concerning State Voting Rights in Recognition of John R. Lewis (CTVRA)” as part of the state’s new budget. The law is a state-level voting rights ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Louisiana, law firm Cozen O’ Connor, and Louisiana attorneys Ron Wilson and John Adcock filed a motion today to lift ...
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, LDF, media@naacpldf.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org WASHINGTON – In a historic win for voting rights, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in Allen v. Milligan in favor of Black voters, affirming ...
Today, the Connecticut General Assembly passed An Act Concerning State Voting Rights in Recognition of John R. Lewis (“CTVRA”) as part of the state budget. The CTVRA is a state-level Voting Rights Act that seeks ...
LDF and a coalition of criminal justice organizations sent a letter to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin and Ranking Member Lindsey Graham urging Committee members to vote “no” on S. 1080, the Cooper ...
