Today, civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice organizations sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) “domestic violent extremism” label, standards for collecting and ...
Plaintiffs respond to the Alabama Legislature passing another congressional map that lacks a second majority-Black district, in direct violation of federal law and the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Legislature ...
Today, LDF and a broad coalition of civil rights organizations sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration expressing opposition to the Americans Confidence in Elections Act (ACE Act). Rather than ...
Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling in Biden v. Nebraska, striking down the Biden administration’s plan to provide relief to student loan borrowers under the HEROES Act. The Court dismissed the other student debt ...
Today, on the final day of Pride month, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, ruling that the Petitioner, the owner of a website design studio, has a ...
Today, the Supreme Court bowed to pressure from anti-civil rights activists, finding that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s affirmative action programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This radical decision ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced that Karla McKanders has been appointed as the new director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute, the multidisciplinary research and advocacy center within LDF that was launched in 2015. ...
