Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter today to the House Judiciary Committee urging members to oppose the Thin Blue Line Act, H.B. 115, which would add the killing or attempted killing of a law enforcement officer as an aggravating factor in determining whether a death sentence is justified. While […]
Monday, June 27, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund, Gulfport Branch of the NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center, and One Voice sent a letter to the Harrison County, Mississippi School Board regarding its plans for the post-2020 redistricting cycle. The letter reminds the School Board of its affirmative obligations to comply with the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution’s […]
Thursday, August 21, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent letters to the governors of Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and South Carolina, in response to reports that they are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., urging them to reverse their decision. The letters correct President Trump’s inaccurate claim that there is a crime emergency in […]
Thursday, November 13, 2025 | news
Today, the state of Oklahoma will execute Tremane Wood, a Black man, unless Governor Kevin Stitt or the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes. Mr. Wood is currently on death row despite compelling evidence of his innocence and significant deficiencies in his trial proceedings. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted to grant Mr. Wood clemency, but […]
Friday, June 3, 2022 | news
Yesterday, by a supermajority vote of 106-43, the New York State Assembly joined with the New York State Senate and passed the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York, a transformative bill that will increase access to the vote for millions of New Yorkers, set a new standard for empowering Black and Brown […]
Thursday, April 25, 2019 | page
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with the Florida State Conference of the NAACP, has submitted a number of letters to the Florida House and Senate urging legislators to oppose bills under consideration that would significantly undermine Amendment 4’s historic mandate to expand voting rights in Florida. During the November 2018 […]
Friday, June 13, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted comments to the Department of Energy, urging the agency to reverse course on attempts to rescind regulations that prohibit discrimination. This letter comes after the agency issued a direct final rule attempting to walk away from its nondiscrimination obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of […]
Thursday, September 26, 2013 | news
On September 25, 2013, LDF sent a letter to Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and the thirteen members of the D.C. Council urging them to make changes to the District of Columbia’s property tax lien sales system. Tax lien sales are used by many jurisdictions across the country as a means to collect delinquent property taxes, […]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | case-update
In a letter to the leadership of the U.S. Senate, LDF asked for swift passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 3772) in this lameduck period. This bill would close the loopholes of the Equal Pay Act, passed in 1963, and strengthen its protections by adding remedies for wage discrimination, for example. LDF noted that African-American […]
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | news
Today, LDF sent a letter to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson urging members of Congress to vote no on two bills, The Common Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability in D.C. Now Act (H.R. 5107), and The D.C. Cash Bail Reform Act (H.R. 5214). These bills will make the […]
