Monday, April 26, 2021 | news
Today, 30 local, state-based, and national organizations announced the formation of the PASCO Coalition: People Against the Surveillance of Children and Overpolicing to call on the Pasco County School District to stop its practice of illegally sharing confidential student information with the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. This program provides confidential student data to law enforcement […]
Thursday, June 19, 2014 | news
Stop-and-Frisk. Voter ID laws. Jim Crow Redux. Reparations. 2014 has more similarities to 1964 than we care to admit. We can’t forge ahead without looking back at a nation birthed in genocide and slavery, and marked by state-sponsored terrorism, debt peonage, lynchings, and redlining. How can we confront this history as a way forward? What […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 | ldf-perspectives
Neomi Rao Showed Us Who She Was in College – Believe Her By Todd A. Cox, Policy Director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Given the sexual assault allegations that dominated Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, it’s not surprising that the conversation surrounding the woman nominated to replace him on the D.C. […]
Monday, July 7, 2014 | news
In Reuters “The Great Debate,” Janai Nelson, LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel, argues “swift and dauntless action is needed in both houses of Congress, however, to ensure that voting remains an equal opportunity exercise for all Americans, and that Congress remains a relevant force in the defense of voting rights in places like Mississippi, Texas, Georgia and […]
Monday, November 17, 2014 | news
Janai Nelson on the Supreme Court’s consideration of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) case before it: “There are already 20 million people that have registered for health care under the ACA, and so to reverse course at this point and say that these federal subsidies cannot support those federal exchanges would be a great harm […]
Friday, October 3, 2014 | news
LDF’s Janai Nelson, along with former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal and other legal scholars previewed the 2014-2015 Supreme Court term. Among the cases they discussed were racial gerrymandering of congressional districts (also discussed in The National Law Journal,) threatening statements on Facebook, whistleblower protections, and the religious liberty of prisoners. The panelists also briefly reviewed cases […]
Sunday, March 8, 2015 | news
Selma 50 years later: More bridges to cross “This weekend members of Congress will join the crowds flooding the streets of Selma in remembrance of one of the most heinous attacks by law enforcement on civilians in our country — Bloody Sunday. They will shake hands with civil rights leaders, pose for photo ops, attend services […]
Monday, September 15, 2014 | news
Attorney General Eric Holder announced recently that the Department of Justice would be investigating the entire Ferguson police department for civil rights violations. LDF’s Janai Nelson discussed this investigation on the Melissa Harris-Perry show along with Marquez Claxton, Rev. Paul Raushenbush, and Phillip Atiba Goff. Watch the video here:
Friday, November 21, 2014 | news
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, Define America, the Human Rights Campaign, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP, the National Action Network, […]
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 | news
Janai Nelson, LDF Associate Director-Counsel, joins a panel on the Diane Rehm Show to discuss the prospects of change in the aftermath of the Ferguson crisis. Prospects For Change In The Aftermath Of Michael Brown’s Death In Ferguson, Missouri President Barack Obama met with civil rights leaders and law enforcement officials yesterday to talk about […]
