LDF President and Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson Testifies Before Congress on the Continuing Threat of Racialized Violence and Targeting of Black Institutions

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Today, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson testified before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security in response to the ongoing crisis of extremist attacks on Black ...

Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Louisiana Congressional Map

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Louisiana, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s congressional map. Filed on ...

LDF Releases Detailed Report on Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Recommends Confirmation

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released a report evaluating the record of United States Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, in keeping with our longstanding tradition of outlining the background, judicial ...

Janai S. Nelson Begins Tenure as LDF’s 8th President and Director-Counsel

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Today, Janai S. Nelson began her tenure as the eighth President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), following Sherrilyn Ifill in the first-ever woman-to-woman leadership transition in the organization’s 82-year ...

LDF and Partners Publish Report and Fact Sheet Explaining Benefits of New York Voting Rights Act

As states across the country engage in the greatest assault on voting rights since Jim Crow, New York has an opportunity in 2022 to set a new standard for protecting the freedom to vote and ...

Civil Rights Groups File Federal Lawsuit Over Louisiana’s New Gerrymandered District Maps

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CONTACT: Ella Wiley, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ewiley@naacpldf.org   NEW ORLEANS — The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Louisiana, Cozen O’Connor, Ron Wilson, and John Adock ...

LDF Congratulates Ajmel Quereshi on His Appointment as Magistrate Judge to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

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Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland announced that NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., (LDF) Senior Counsel Ajmel Quereshi has been appointed as a magistrate judge. A member of the ...

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