Today, President Biden announced major steps in reforming the nation’s long-standing criminalization of people – disproportionately Black and Brown persons – for possessing or using cannabis, including pardons for prior federal offenses related to cannabis ...
Washington, D.C. — October 4, 2022 — Plaintiffs and attorneys in Merrill v. Milligan, a case challenging Alabama’s new congressional map for diluting the ability of Black voters to elect candidates of their choice, held ...
Today, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy introduced a set of principles to support the development of policies and practices for the building, deployment, and governance of automated systems, a “Blueprint for ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund submitted comments in response to the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights’ proposed rule on Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities. In the face of persistent ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released The Truth Behind Crime Statistics, a critical new report that explores how current politicized discussions of crime ignore or distort crime data to intensify public fear and ...
The United States Department of Justice last week named Elise Boddie, a constitutional law professor and legal scholar at the University of Michigan, as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, the second highest leadership position within ...
Yesterday, the United States House of Representatives passed a package of policing bills that included Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s Invest to Protect Act (H.R. 6448), which provides grant funding for law enforcement agencies for hiring and ...
