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 […]
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | news
“South Carolina officials requested to lift a federal court order that prohibits the State from using a racially gerrymandered congressional map for the November 2024 elections in Congressional District 1. If these officials had their way, they would conduct elections in South Carolina for the second election cycle under an unconstitutional congressional map. The Legal Defense […]
Sunday, March 12, 2017 | news
“If you look at the 23rd Judicial District or the 16th Judicial District, they all have districts like the one we’re trying to achieve, which is a district where black voters are the majority,” said Leah Aden, attorney for the New York-based NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which is representing the local NAACP chapter in the […]
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 | news
How Hillary Clinton’s Allies Are Expanding the Vote Behind the Scenes Leah Aden, senior counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, called [Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s] restoration of voting rights “courageous.” “This is a key civil rights issue, that more than 5 million in our country can’t vote because of a felony conviction,” Aden said. […]
Thursday, November 12, 2020 | news
Read the PDF of the testimony here Letter offers support of Council Bill (“CB”) 20-0626 and further measures to alleviate the water affordability crisis in Baltimore LDF Senior Counsel and Thurgood Marshall Institute Researcher Coty Montag testified today in support of Baltimore’s Water Accountability and Equity Act Modifications Bill (CB 20-0626). The bill includes measures […]
Thursday, September 3, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) and fifteen other organizations sent a letter to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urging him to issue an Executive Order to take critical steps to ensure that the November 3rd Election is conducted as safely as possible amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Detailed within the letter, we […]
