On February 27, the Department of Justice announced an abrupt about-face on voting rights, essentially walking away from a lawsuit against a harsh voter ID law in Texas. Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate’s Amicus podcast, discusses the ...
Voter fraud paranoia vs. voting rights protection Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Ari Berman of The Nation, join Joy Reid to discuss the rising tide of bills that will make it ...
Although “voter fraud” has long been on the list of myths perpetuated by state-level Republican leaders to justify onerous voter ID laws, even Republican members of Congress have refused to endorse the president’s views about widespread voter ...
In 1953, I integrated Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. My admission, as the first black student on a campus today serving more than 30,000 students, was possible after my father and namesake, civil rights ...
I asked Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, what this institutional silencing signifies. “We should remember that this letter was somehow never made part of the official Senate ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund Is Gearing Up For Battle With The White House The LDF— our nation’s oldest civil rights legal organization—has been involved with many of the biggest police brutality cases of our ...
Roland Martin talks to Sherrilyn Ifill, President & Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund about Donald Trump appointing Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court.
