The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is pleased that President Obama has nominated three distinguished individuals to fill longstanding vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. LDF has repeatedly called ...
William T. Coleman Jr., former chairman of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s board of directors, was awarded the 2013 Harvard Medal from the Harvard Alumni Association for his extraordinary service to the University. The Harvard ...
On Friday, May 24, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona issued a sweeping injunction permanently preventing controversial Arizona Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, from using race or Latino ancestry as a basis for the exercise of ...
On Saturday, May 11, 2013, Christina Swarns, Director of LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, appeared on MSNBC’s, “Up with Steve Kornacki” to discuss the death penalty, whether or not it is a deterrent, and the extent ...
Writing in The Root, Vincent Southerland, Senior Counsel in LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, urges policy makers to use the opportunity presented by the US Supreme Court’s decision in Miller v. Alabama to treat children convicted ...
LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile was the only Black lawyer to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court during the last year. Mr. Adegbile argued in the case of Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder to preserve Section 5 of ...
In an editorial, the New York Times highlighted the racism and injustice that permeate the death sentence of LDF client Duane Buck. Mr. Buck was sentence to death in a proceeding in which the ...
