Janai Nelson, LDF Associate Director-Counsel, states that Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declaring a state of emergency before there is an actual emergency sets a “dangerous precedent”: Missouri Governor’s Pre-Emptive State of Emergency is an Alarming ...
Sherrilyn Ifill joins a panel discussion on CNN’s State of the Union with remarks on the impending grand jury decision. Can Ferguson go from moment to movement? Will the grand jury decision be a verdict on ...
In a USA Today op-ed, Sherrilyn Ifill looks beyond the issue of race and policing in Ferguson, Missouri to those of leadership and governance: Ferguson’s challenge goes beyond race: Column No matter the grand jury ...
Janai Nelson, LDF Associate Director-Counsel, joined a host of Civil Rights organizations at the National Press Club in strong support for President Obama’s executive order on immigration. Other organizations represented included Asian American Advancing Justice, ...
Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel at LDF, pens an analysis of two consolidated Alabama election law cases before the Supreme Court, and their potential impact on election laws across the nation. “The Supreme Court typically hears ...
Natasha Korgaonkar, Assistant Counsel at LDF, weighs in on the on-going voting law battles leading up to the 2016 general election. Supreme Court rulings forced last-minute changes in state voting procedures for the midterm elections across the ...
In the wake of the mid-term elections, Leslie Proll, LDF Director of the Washington, D.C. office, implores the returning Senate to make top priority the over 34 judicial nominations awaiting confirmation in an op-ed posted in ...
