Tuesday, February 11, 2020 | news
Today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Andrew Brasher to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) opposed Mr. Brasher’s nomination because of his troubling record on several key civil rights issues. This vote to confirm serves as yet another reminder of Senate […]
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Today’s Senate vote requires attention and reflection. Too often, those being confirmed to serve on some of the most esteemed and powerful courts in the country possess disqualifying professional records and characteristics that inhibit them from serving as fair and impartial guardians against injustice. The NAACP Legal Defense […]
Tuesday, August 11, 2015 | news
Residents of Ferguson, Missouri and other communities across the country have spent the past several days observing the one-year anniversary of the police-killing of Michael Brown, Jr., an unarmed African-American teenager. These overwhelmingly peaceful commemorations have reflected on the progress that has been made and the progress still needed toward reforming racially-discriminatory policing practices in […]
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) remembers Freddie Gray, a young African-American man who succumbed to spinal cord injuries he suffered while in the custody of Baltimore City police officers one year ago. His was the fifth in-custody death in Baltimore in three years, laying bare the longstanding problem of police […]
Monday, December 28, 2015 | news
“The failure to indict in this case compounds the tragic loss of Tamir Rice with grave injustice,” said Janai Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Associate Director-Counsel. Today, a grand jury failed to charge Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback for the shooting death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy playing with a toy pellet […]
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 | news
Today, President Barack Obama nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. If confirmed, Judge Garland will assume the seat left vacant by the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2016. The […]
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 | news
(Washington, DC) – Today, President Barack Obama nominated Elena Kagan, Solicitor General, to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the United States Supreme Court. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), congratulates Ms. Kagan on her nomination and calls upon the Senate to consider the nomination expeditiously. John Payton, President and Director-Counsel of LDF, […]
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 | news
Today, Katurah Topps, Policy Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding the New York State Legislature’s vote to fully repeal Section 50-a of New York’s civil rights law, which allowed police departments across the state to conceal officer disciplinary and misconduct records from the public: “We […]
Friday, February 12, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) believes that justice was served in the trial of former New York City Police Officer (NYPD) Peter Liang, who was convicted of one count of manslaughter and one count of official misconduct for the killing of Mr. Akai Gurley, an unarmed African American. Liang’s conviction is […]
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. has described the video showing a Chicago police officer shooting 17 year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014 as yet another appalling example of a police officer demonstrating a callous disregard for the life of a young African American man. The video shows the officer shooting McDonald who is […]
