On May 21, 2025, Legal Defense Fund Director of Policy Demetria McCain submitted written testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development hearing, “Restoring Excellence: ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) denounces the two assault charges announced Monday by the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey against Representative LaMonica McIver. LDF further urges law enforcement officials to make ...
ACLU of Connecticut, Legal Defense Fund, Voting Rights Advocates at Connecticut Capitol Today HARTFORD, Conn. — Today, the ACLU of Connecticut (ACLU of CT), the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and leading civil and voting ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund (MBELDEF) sent a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urging him to rescind the agency’s recent “Follow ...
Today, May 17, 2025, marks the 71st anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which declared the “separate but equal” doctrine unconstitutional and marked a new standard for ...
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Barnes v. Felix, holding that courts must consider the totality of circumstances that led to a use of police force, rather than only the moment ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with the NAACP, the National Action Network, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, and the W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health ...
