Thursday, May 25, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Late yesterday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act, restoring voting rights to thousands of citizens who were previously disenfranchised. Until now, Alabama law did not define which felonies involve “moral turpitude,” a condition that carried with it automatic disqualification from voting. For […]
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) is encouraged by the agreement announced today by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the City of Cleveland on plans to reform the Cleveland Division of Police following the DOJ’s finding of a pattern or practice of excessive force. The court-enforceable agreement requires the Division of […]
Friday, June 16, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our staement here. LDF Statement on Acquittal of St. Anthony Police Officer for Death of Philando Castile Today, a jury acquitted St. Anthony, Minnesota Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez of second-degree manslaughter and two counts of intentionally discharging a dangerous weapon for fatally shooting Philando Castile, a Black man, during a roadside encounter […]
Friday, May 9, 2025 | news
On Wednesday, three former Memphis police officers were acquitted of state charges, including second-degree murder, in the death of Tyre Nichols, whose 2023 killing shocked the nation and fueled calls for reform. The three were convicted last year in a federal trial for witness tampering, and one of the three was found guilty of federal […]
Monday, November 6, 2017 | news
LDF Statement on Acquittal of NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs for Delrawn Small’s Death Today, a jury acquitted New York City Police (NYPD) Officer Wayne Isaacs of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the first degree for fatally shooting Delrawn Small in July 2016. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued the […]
Monday, November 6, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Statement on Acquittal of NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs for Delrawn Small’s Death Today, a jury acquitted New York City Police (NYPD) Officer Wayne Isaacs of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the first degree for fatally shooting Delrawn Small in July 2016. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. […]
Friday, April 27, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Veasey vs Abbott Today, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Texas’ current photo voter ID law, S.B. 5, sufficiently remedies discrimination against Black and Latino voters. The decision reverses a lower court order that blocked Texas from enforcing that law and an earlier iteration of it. “We are disappointed in […]
Friday, July 17, 2015 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joins family, friends and people across the country and the world in remembering Eric Garner, a Staten Island father of six, who was killed one year ago by a vicious chokehold administered by New York City Police Department Officer, Daniel Pantaleo. This horrifying act of […]
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) strongly supports the Voting Rights Advancement Act (the Advancement Act), introduced today in the Senate and the House. The bill represents a welcome effort by Members of Congress to restore critical voting rights protections in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision that gutted a key […]
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 | news
Monique Dixon, Deputy Director of Policy and Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to the conviction of the former Balch Springs, Texas police officer for the 2017 murder of Jordan Edwards: “With the conviction of Officer Roy Oliver, something all too rare has […]
