Federal Court Permits LDF Lawsuit Against President Trump, Trump Campaign, Republican National Committee to Proceed

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Yesterday, a federal court ruled in favor of the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and its clients in Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, et. al. v. Donald J. Trump, et. al., a lawsuit alleging violations of the Voting ...

LDF Welcomes Tona Boyd as Its New Associate Director-Counsel

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced that Tona Boyd, who most recently served as Special Counsel and Special Assistant to the President in the White House Counsel’s Office in the Biden-Harris Administration, where she worked ...

Trial Wraps Up in Voting Rights Case Challenging South Carolina’s Congressional Map

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal court in South Carolina heard closing arguments today in a major voting rights case challenging the state’s new congressional map. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Case Involving Police Officer Holding Black Man at Gunpoint

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Cerisier v. City of New York, in which New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer Saurabh Shah stopped and held motorist James Cerisier at gunpoint ...

Cecilia Marshall Tribute

LDF Tribute to Cecilia Marshall 1928 – 2022 The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall on November 22, 2022. Ms. Marshall was the wife of ...

LDF Mourns the Loss of Board Member Cecilia Marshall, Wife of LDF Founder Thurgood Marshall

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The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened by the passing of Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall. Ms. Marshall was the wife of LDF’s founder and the nation’s first Black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a ...

LDF Condemns Colorado Springs Mass Shooting and Ongoing Targeting of LGBTQ+ Community

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On Sunday, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five people and injured 25 others in a mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs. The horrendous attack came on the eve of Transgender ...

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