Another Blockbuster Season Ahead for the Supreme Court The case, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, involves a 2006 constitutional amendment approved by Michigan voters that bans affirmative action in the state. A closely-divided ...
NYU Law School, Sherrilyn Ifill’s alma mater, profiles her in their alumni magazine This year, Sherrilyn Ifill became the seventh president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). A professor at ...
About 2,000 petitions await Supreme Court’s return Richard Wolf, USA TODAY 2:59 p.m. EDT September 23, 2013 The annual glut of appeals that accumulates throughout the summer must be whittled down by the justices’ law ...
Sherrilyn Ifill has served as president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund since January, and she says that while “the signs are all around me that I’m new”—including bare walls in her ...
On Tavis Smiley’s show AYG radio, Sherrilyn Ifill discusses the current civil rights movement; how the dis-empowered can be agents of change; and how the current generation of civil rights activists can organize and mobilize.
Josh Civin previews the Supreme Court’s upcoming term and highlights Schuette v. Cantrell. Read the details on C-SPAN.org
“Ryan Haygood, director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, said in an interview with Colorlines.com that he is “very hopeful” about a VRA congressional fix this year. “The Voting Rights Act case is about protecting voters ...
