Monday, June 26, 2017 | news
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, a devastating ruling that immobilized a part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) that was one of the most effective tools for protecting voters and strengthening our political process. As a result, far too many state and […]
Monday, October 30, 2017 | news
Fourteen years ago this week, a white sitting judge in Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish attended a Halloween party at a public restaurant dressed as a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs, wearing an Afro wig and blackface makeup. His wife accompanied him, clad as a cop. After local NAACP leaders filed a complaint, district judge […]
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 | news
Method of Electing its City Council Violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Today, a U.S. District Court in Alabama found that the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.’s (LDF) plaintiffs—local Black voters and the Alabama State NAACP—sufficiently alleged that the City of Pleasant Grove’s at-large method of electing its City Council violates […]
Friday, December 16, 2016 | news
A memo released yesterday by a number of organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), revealed gaping holes in Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions’s response to his Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ) that preclude the Judiciary Committee from holding a thorough and complete hearing on his nomination. This finding also revealed that, as a nominee, […]
Friday, May 12, 2017 | news
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has revealed that he is willing to trash longstanding Senate tradition and undermine his Senate colleagues to hand control of the federal courts over to President Donald Trump. Grassley said that he will allow Trump to go over the heads of Democratic senators to fill federal appeals court vacancies in their […]
Tuesday, January 10, 2017 | news
AMY GOODMAN: Kyle Barry, you’re policy counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. You authored the report on Jeff Sessions. Why did you find it necessary to write a report on this nomination in particular? KYLE BARRY: Thanks, Amy. I think one of the first things that people have to remember is that the attorney […]
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 | news
Wednesday’s confirmation hearing for three of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees may lack the intrigue of James Comey’s blockbuster testimony, but for anyone who cares about the integrity and independence of America’s courts, the stakes could hardly be higher. The hearing will illustrate how Trump is advancing an anti-civil rights agenda—not just through executive orders […]
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 | news
Janai Nelson, along with Marc Morial of the National Urban League, joins MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports to weigh in on a meeting with civil rights leaders and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as well as the Texas Voter ID case which LDF is litigating. Watch the full segment here.
Friday, October 18, 2019 | news
“The widespread voter suppression problems in three debate locations—and the repeated omission of voting rights discussions from presidential debates over the past few years—is startling. The last decade unleashed an onslaught on democratic participation, including stringent voter ID laws, an array of voter registration restrictions, sweeping illegitimate voter purges, an alarming rise in polling place […]
Monday, June 9, 2014 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund will testify tomorrow before the U.S. House of Representatives at a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill is one of four witnesses invited to testify at the hearing on “The Regulatory and Enforcement Priorities of […]
