Friday, July 23, 2010 | news
(New York, NY) — The ordeal that Shirley Sherrod has endured this week with such strength and grace should never have happened. No one should be so unfairly accused. And no one should lose their job without a fair chance to respond to the allegations against them. Of course, Shirley Sherrod should be reinstated to […]
Thursday, December 7, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Statement on Sentencing of Former North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager Today, former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager was sentenced to 20 years in prison for violating the civil rights of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man who Officer Slager fatally shot during a routine traffic stop. […]
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Statement on Senator Grassley Advising the White House to Reconsider the Judicial Nominations of Brett Talley and Jeff Mateer Today, it was reported that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is advising the White House to reconsider the nominations of Brett Talley and Jeff Mateer to serve on […]
Saturday, October 6, 2018 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement after the Senate’s vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court: “Today’s vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court comes at the end of a process that has […]
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 […]
