Tuesday, January 15, 2019 | news
Ahead of Attorney General nominee William Barr’s confirmation hearings this week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released an overview of Mr. Barr’s record on civil rights throughout his career, including his time in the DOJ during the George H.W. Bush Administration. Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel issued the following statement: […]
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the following statement regarding the widespread voting delays and irregularities during today’s Georgia primary election. “Today’s primary election in Georgia was a disturbing demonstration of what happens when state officials fail to carry out their responsibilities to ensure free […]
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | news
This week, the Senate is poised to confirm Jeffrey Rosen to serve as Deputy Attorney General of the United States and Wendy Vitter to a lifetime appointment on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has repeatedly urged Senators to oppose both nominations […]
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 | news
The Senate is poised to confirm Daniel Collins to a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit later today. Lisa Cylar Barrett, Policy Director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), released the following statement: “Mere days after the 65th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision […]
Monday, June 1, 2015 | news
Today the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the right of job seekers to be free of discrimination in hiring. Declaring that “[a]n employer may not make an applicant’s religious practice, confirmed or otherwise, a factor in [an] employment decision,” the Supreme Court rejected apparel chain Abercrombie & Fitch’s claim that it had the right to […]
Thursday, July 13, 2017 | news
LDF Statement on U.S. Transportation Department’s Decision to Close Red Line Inquiry Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation served notice in a letter to the Maryland Department of Transportation that it has closed the complaint without finding. In December of 2015, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF); the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement […]
Friday, June 26, 2015 | news
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Constitution’s promise of equal protection requires states to recognize the right of same-sex couples to marry. In Obergefell v. Hodges, Justice Kennedy announced that “the right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of the person, and under the Due Process and Equal Protection […]
Monday, June 29, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is deeply disappointed that the United States Supreme Court has upheld the lethal injection cocktail used by Oklahoma to carry out executions. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Glossip v. Gross means that Oklahoma, and the other states that rely on similar execution protocols, can continue to expose condemned prisoners to […]
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | news
Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Abbott v. Perez about whether to affirm a three-judge court’s decisions that Texas’s congressional and state legislative redistricting maps, implemented in 2013, unlawfully furthered and maintained the purposeful dilution of Black and Latino voting strength in 2011 maps and that the electoral districts impacted by that purposeful discrimination […]
Monday, March 18, 2019 | news
The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will not re-examine the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision to deny Keith Tharpe the ability to appeal his racially-biased death sentence. One of the jurors who sentenced Tharpe to death later signed an affidavit in which he claimed that there are two types of Black people: […]
