“We’ve had a lot of people writing in about changes and that’s been a really great thing,” Natasha Korgaonkar, assistant counsel in NAACP LDF’s Political Participation Group, told POLITICO. “We’re also keeping our eyes and ...
Justice Sequestered is Justice Denied Southerland Discusses Sequester’s Devastating Effects on Federal Defender Programs Vincent M. Southerland, Senior Counsel in LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, weighed in on the devastating effects of sequestration, which has resulted ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and this country have lost one of our great civil rights lawyers and leaders. Julius Chambers, the third Director-Counsel of LDF and former Chair of its Board, died on Friday ...
Damon Hewitt, Director of the Education Practice Group at LDF, met with and delivered testimony to the Dream Defenders yesterday during the sixteenth day of their sit-in at the Florida Governor’s office. Inspired by sit-ins ...
In today’s New York Times, Charles Ogletree Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard, has penned a powerful op-ed about Duane Buck and the deeply unfair and unconstitutional biases that plagued his sentencing hearing. ...
Jin Hee Lee, Senior Counsel in LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, writes in a blog for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty about how the Trayvon Martin tragedy is related to the racial discrimination ...
NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Ryan Haygood appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the important effort by the Department of Justice to have Texas submit all proposed voting changes for review before they can ...
