LDF Commends Department of Justice for Investigative Findings on the Minneapolis Police Department

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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 ...

Florida Educators Urge Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to Uphold Preliminary Block of Unlawful “Stop W.O.K.E.” Censorship Law

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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 ...

In Judicial First, Massachusetts Supreme Court Reverses Conviction of Black Muslim Man Represented by Racist, Islamophobic Court-Appointed Attorney

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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 ...

LDF Applauds Dale Ho’s Confirmation to the Southern District of New York

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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 ...

Civil Rights Groups Urge Congress to Pass the Expanded Child Tax Credit

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) ...

LDF Applauds Historic Enactment of Connecticut Voting Rights Act: Strongest State VRA Yet Part of a Growing Trend

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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 ...

Civil Rights Groups Seek to Lift Stay in Federal Lawsuit Challenging Louisiana’s Discriminatory State Legislative Maps on Heels of U.S. Supreme Court Alabama Decision

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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 ...

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