Monday, March 11, 2013 | news
On March 8, LDF Special Counsel, Debo Adegbile, talked with The Cycle hosts on MSNBC about Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, the current challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. According to Mr. Adegbile, Section 5, the heart of the Voting Rights Act, helps ensure a more inclusive democracy. With Mr. Adegbile defending […]
Monday, March 4, 2013 | news
From Selma, Alabama, NAACP LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile appears on CNN to explain how the Voting Rights Act remains a necessary tool to remedy over a century of voting discrimination, and “captures what is best in America”—the ability of all to participate in the political process. The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering Shelby […]
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | news
NAACP LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile and Assistant Counsel Dale Ho recently appeared on Up w/ Chris Hayes to discuss the current challenge to the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. With Mr. Adegbile defending the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act on behalf of six African-American voters, the U.S. Supreme Court […]
Saturday, March 29, 2025 | news
On March 27, President Donald Trump released an executive order, misnamed “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which advances pseudo-scientific ideas on race, and attacks funding for programs and institutions that preserve and steward our country’s history. Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, issued the following statement in response to […]
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 | news
Dear Governor Abbott, We are civil rights organizations that work directly with voters across this state and advocate for a free and fair democracy in Texas. We write regarding the recent admission by the United States Postal Service (“Postal Service”) that it cannot guarantee delivery of voters’ mail-in ballots within the timeframe mandated under Texas […]
Friday, January 19, 2024 | news
Today, LDF submitted comments to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in response to the request from the Justice Department and Department of home HS for public input regarding law enforcement agencies use of facial recognition technology; fingerprint and iris biometric technologies; DNA biometric technologies, including familial searching, probabilistic genotyping software, […]
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 | news
Comments on 2020 Census, Including Proposed Information Collection The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), our country’s first and foremost civil rights and racial justice organization, appreciates the opportunity to provide comments in response to the June 2018 Federal Register notice (the Notice). Since its founding in 1940, one of LDF’s core […]
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) served a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request on the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (NYDA) to gather information about New Yorkers’ inclusion in NYDA’s gang database(s). This request follows LDF and the Center for Constitutional Rights’ recent FOIL requests seeking information about […]
Saturday, March 16, 2019 | news
LDF Senior Counsel, Michaele Turnage Young joins MSNBC Live with Kendis Gibson to discuss the college admissions scandal and how it impacts students of color.
Friday, November 18, 2016 | news
Five years ago, Texas passed one of the strictest Voter ID laws in the country. The legal fight began immediately and has continued through this day, with critics of the law getting some assistance from the Obama administration’s Justice Department. Now, with Republican Donald Trump set to ascend to the Oval Office, the law’s future […]
