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By Todd A. Cox, LDF Policy Director On Friday, November 17th, Attorney General Jeff Sessions released a memo prohibiting the Department of Justice (DOJ) from issuing guidance documents that “have the effect of adopting new regulatory requirements or amending the law.” The memo added that in the past, DOJ and other agencies have failed to make the distinction between guidance intended to

by Kyle Barry, LDF Policy Counsel Following the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) called on Congress to exercise its oversight authority over the Department of Justice (DOJ) to ensure the agency was doing everything in its power to prosecute hate and domestic terrorism crimes, and to enforce civil rights laws. After legislators

by Kyle Barry, LDF Policy Counsel All year, we’ve explained how President Trump is reshaping the federal courts to enable his own discriminatory policy agenda. Frustrated by repeated losses in court on issues ranging from immigration to abortion to voting rights, Trump has selected a bevy of judicial nominees precisely for their long and in some cases incendiary records opposing civil rights. Their records show how

By Leslie Proll, Former Policy Director, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) Jesse Helms’ ghost looms large in President Trump’s nomination of Thomas Farr to the Eastern District of North Carolina. Helms, a staunch segregationist who served as North Carolina’s Senator for three decades until retiring in 2003, was notorious for his unabashed racism in political campaigns and lawmaking.

President Trump’s Nominee To Lead the Division Embodies the Extreme Anti-Civil Rights Agenda By Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sixty years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the Civil Rights Division within the U.S. Department of Justice. Tasked with promoting fair and equal justice for all Americans, the Civil Rights Division became one of the most important offices