Joel Motley, Son of Former LDF Attorney Constance Baker Motley, Issues Statement Calling for the Confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court

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In advance of Monday’s Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Joel Motley, son of former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, ...

Texas Court Fails to Recognize Waller County’s Denial of Black Students and Voters’ Access to Equitable Early Voting

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Recently, the Southern District Court of Texas ruled against Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) students, recent graduates, and a PVAMU student and alumni organization, who argued that Waller County violated the U.S. Constitution and Section ...

Louisiana Legislature Overturns Governor’s Veto of Map Lacking a Second Majority-Black Congressional District; Civil Rights Groups File Suit Under Voting Rights Act

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March 30, 2022 – Today, the Louisiana legislature voted to overturn Governor John Bel Edwards’ veto of the Congressional map passed earlier this year, which failed to add a second majority-Black district. In response, the ...

LDF Issues Statement Commending Connecticut Lawmakers for Advancing State-Level Voting Rights Act

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Last night, state lawmakers in Connecticut passed out of committee Senate Bill 471 (“S.B. 471”), a state-level Voting Rights Act that seeks to expand access to the freedom to vote and strengthen voter protections for ...

LDF Issues Statement on the Signing of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act Into Law

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Today, President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, bringing to a conclusion a century-long and multigenerational campaign to employ the federal government’s significant powers against lynching—a distinctly American form of anti-Black violence ...

LDF Sends Letter Concerning East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana School Board Redistricting Process

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the NAACP Louisiana State Conference, Louisiana Progress, Black Voters Matter Fund, Progressive Social Network and Power Coalition for Equity and Justice sent a letter concerning ...

LDF Sends Letter Urging Connecticut Legislators to Support State Voting Rights Act

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. submitted written testimony urging Connecticut legislators to support S.B. 471 An Act Concerning Elections and State Voting Rights. The bill, strongly modeled after the federal Voting Rights ...

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