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: […]
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | news
In Timbs v. Indiana, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Eighth Amendment’s protection against excessive fines and fees applies to the states as well as the federal government. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the case making clear that historically, states used criminal fines as […]
Friday, June 29, 2018 | news
In 2016, the Obama Administration finalized regulations that would help protect students—particularly students of color—from widespread and well-documented racial disparities in the identification, placement, and discipline of students with disabilities. The regulations are designed to ensure that states are appropriately identifying and addressing these racial disparities in special education. Todd Cox, Director of Policy at […]
Friday, September 23, 2016 | news
President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement regarding the indictment of Officer Betty Shelby, who killed Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, and the release of the Scott family’s video footage of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte: “In the face of community anguish and the […]
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, the White House issued an executive order directing U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to conduct a study on the federal government’s role in K-12 education and align existing education policy with this Administration’s vision of the proper role of the federal government in K-12 education. NAACP […]
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. LDF Statement on Trump Administration Halting Equal Pay Data Collection Late yesterday, the Trump Administration put an indefinite hold on equal pay data collection, which was an Obama-era initiative – set to begin in 2018 – mandating large businesses report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) information about […]
Monday, August 28, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. LDF Statement on Trump Administration Ending Restrictions on Transfer of Military Equipment to Local Law Enforcement Today, President Trump signed an executive order undoing the Obama Administration’s restrictions on the transfer of certain military equipment to state and local police departments. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s (LDF) Policing Reform Campaign vehemently […]
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Statement on Trial Board’s Determination Baltimore Officer Caesar Goodson Did Not Violate Department Policies Today, Baltimore Police Department (BPD) Officer Caesar Goodson was found not guilty of violating 21 department policies at an administrative trial for his role in the in-custody death of Freddie Gray in April 2015. […]
