NAACP LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile and Assistant Counsel Dale Ho recently appeared on Up w/ Chris Hayes to discuss the current challenge to the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. With ...
From Selma, Alabama, NAACP LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile appears on CNN to explain how the Voting Rights Act remains a necessary tool to remedy over a century of voting discrimination, and “captures what is ...
From the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, NAACP LDF President & Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on Melissa Harris-Perry’s show on MSNBC on March 2 — one day before the annual commemoration of Bloody Sunday. ...
Christina Swarns, Director of LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, has been invited by Christiane Féral-Schuhl, the President of the Paris Bar, to participate in the upcoming Paris Bar Conference, “Ces Femmes Qui Portent La Robe – ...
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, Debo P. Adegbile of the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) presented oral argument on behalf of defendant-intervenors in the Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, one of the ...
Just hours after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, LDF Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill debated the ongoing need for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act with the Heritage Foundation’s ...
SCOTUS Dispatch: ‘Hush Fell’ Over Courtroom Your Take: A civil rights lawyer’s view of the scene as the high court heard a voting-rights case. (Special to The Root) — When our clients from Shelby County, Ala., ...
