Thursday, July 16, 2015 | case-update
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is extremely disappointed that the U.S. Senate today passed a bill, the Every Child Achieves Act, that falls woefully short of keeping the promise of the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which it was intended to reauthorize. First passed in 1965, the ESEA has served as our national guarantor that all […]
Thursday, March 9, 2017 | news
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Senate Vote Eliminating Critical Public Education Safeguards Vote Overturns Key ESSA Regulations Today, a majority of the Senate voted to eliminate critical regulations meant to ensure that states meet the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and requiring states to develop plans that hold schools and districts […]
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the following statement of the United States Senate passage of the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform package: “In passing the First Step Act, the Senate took strides toward true comprehensive criminal justice reform, including the retroactive application of […]
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 | news
Today, the Senate passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) by a vote of 85 to 12, assuring the bill’s advancement to President Obama for his signature. The ESSA is the 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), a landmark civil rights law that has helped to ensure equal access to quality […]
Thursday, May 9, 2019 | news
This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to advance the nomination of Jeffrey Rosen to serve as Deputy Attorney General of the United States. In April, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released a statement calling on Senators to reject his nomination based on his refusal to endorse the […]
Thursday, April 4, 2019 | news
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to advance the nomination of Kenneth Lee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Lisa Cylar Barrett, Policy Director at LDF, issued the following statement: “Just a day after Senate Republicans decimated their constitutional obligation to ‘advise and consent’ on district court nominees, the Senate […]
Friday, June 26, 2020 | news
Lisa Cylar Barrett, the Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding this week’s Senate judicial confirmation vote: “This week, the United States Senate confirmed the 200th Trump administration judicial nominee, filling all available circuit court level vacancies in the federal court system . This […]
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 | news
The Senate voted today to confirm Andrew Oldham to a lifetime appointment on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In May, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee formally opposing Oldham’s nomination. Todd A. Cox, Policy Director at LDF, provided the following statement: “As so many turn their […]
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. LDF Statement on Selection of the Civilian Oversight Task Force in Baltimore Late yesterday, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced the appointment of nine residents to the Civilian Oversight Task Force, which will be responsible for reviewing and commenting on the city’s current system of civilian oversight of the police […]
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 | news
On Monday, April 5, 2014, the United States Supreme Court announced that the excessive force lawsuit filed by Washington Nationals baseball player, Robbie Tolan, was improperly dismissed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In reaching this conclusion, the Supreme Court agreed with arguments presented by the NAACP Legal Defense & […]
