Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Criminal Justice Reform on All In with Chris Hayes

Sessions orders toughest drug sentences It’s a step toward bringing back the so-called War on Drugs.

LDF’s Kyle Barry: Grassley Should Uphold Senate’s Critical Role in Appointing Federal Judges

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has revealed that he is willing to trash longstanding Senate tradition and undermine his Senate colleagues to hand control of the federal courts over to President Donald Trump. Grassley said that ...

Sherrilyn Ifill and Richard Rothstein Join NPR’s 1A to Address the Continued Effects of Housing Segregation

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill and LDF Fellow Richard Rothstein join NPR/WAMU 88.5’s program 1A on an episode entitled “The Long History and Lasting Legacy of Housing Segregation.” Other guests included: Jim Carr, Coleman ...

Mother Jones: EPA Abruptly Closes Longstanding Civil Rights Complaint on Landfill in Historic Black Community

The Environmental Protection Agency has abruptly closed a longstanding civil rights complaint. In December 2003, the Ashurst Bar/Smith community in Tallassee, Alabama, filed a complaint against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, which receives federal funds from ...

Monique Lin-Luse in U.S News and World Report: Public Schools Provide True Opportunity to Pursue Integration

On average, the number of school-aged children in seceding districts is about 4,000 compared to the roughly 32,000 school-aged children that comprise the districts from which they secede, according to the EdBuild analysis. “In most ...

LDF’s Christina Swarns Co-Authors Op-Ed in Houston Chronicle on Permanently Ending Harris County’s Unjust Bail System

Justice delayed is justice denied. For too long, that’s been the case in Harris County, where people languish behind bars for weeks and months awaiting trial for minor, nonviolent misdemeanors because they cannot afford bail. ...

Houma Times: Terrebonne Judicial Trial Raises Fundamental Questions about Equality of Opportunity for Black Residents

The question of whether the rights of black voters are violated by the practice of at-large voting for judges in Terrebonne Parish is now fully in the hands of a federal judge, whose verdict is ...

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