Today, LDF sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in support of the nomination of Judge J. Michelle Childs to serve as a judge on the Court ...
Today, in an unprecedented move, leaders of eight legacy civil rights organizations have joined together with leaders of national reproductive rights, health, and justice organizations to request a meeting with President Biden, following his Executive ...
Today, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services to defend reproductive rights throughout the country by directing federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, the ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz, arguing that the petitioner — a Black man on death row in Texas ...
Today, seventeen civil rights groups and youth organizations sent letters to every Texas school superintendent urging them to ensure their district’s dress codes and related polices are not fostering unlawful discrimination that unfairly denies students ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), in partnership with Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, released “Advancing An Alternative to Police: Community-Based Services for Black People with Mental Illness,” a brief examining the incarceration, institutionalization, and police violence that ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund, the Elmore County Branch of the NAACP, the Elmore County Civic Improvement League, the American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) of Alabama sent a letter to the Prattville, Alabama City Counsel ...
