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 ...
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 ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund submitted comments addressing the risk of algorithmic bias in economic justice and law enforcement technologies and proposes a framework the Federal Trade Commission should use as it considers regulation these ...
Today, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announced that she will step down from House leadership when the 118th Congress begins its term in January 2023. Speaker Pelosi will continue to serve ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) filed an amicus brief in the Georgia state court lawsuit challenging the Georgia Secretary of State Office’s “official election bulletin” to ...
In an important victory for educators’ rights to teach free from censorship and discrimination, a federal judge issued an order that will immediately block members of the Florida Board of Governors from enforcing Florida’s HB ...
Today, LDF sent a letter with other civil rights organizations calling on Congress to pass an expanded child tax credit (CTC) focused on helping children in low-income families as part of any year-end legislation. Redlining, credit discrimination, lack of investment in education ...
