Monday, January 24, 2022 | news
Today, the United States Supreme Court granted writs of certiorari in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC. From its inception, SFFA, led by Ed Blum, has sought to end the limited consideration of race within a holistic admissions process that fosters the educational benefits of diversity, which the Supreme Court […]
Thursday, January 27, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) issued the following statement regarding the retirement announcement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer: “We wish to recognize Justice Stephen Breyer for his nearly 30 years of distinguished service on the United States Supreme Court. Throughout his tenure, Justice Breyer combined a fierce and passionate […]
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 | news
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion in Terry v. United States holding that the First Step Act does not permit people convicted and sentenced for offenses involving small amounts of crack-cocaine to be resentenced, if their conviction did not result in a mandatory-minimum sentence. In 2010, Congress passed the Fair Sentencing […]
Friday, August 27, 2021 | news
Late last night, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had exceeded its authority in establishing a nation-wide moratorium on the eviction of renters who are behind on their rent payments because of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Lisa Cylar Barrett, Director of Policy, at the NAACP Legal Defense and […]
Friday, December 10, 2021 | news
Today, the United States Supreme Court permitted Texas abortion care providers the ability to challenge the state’s abortion law (S.B. 8) in federal court, but only on the narrowest grounds against state licensing officials. In addition, the Court denied a stay of the law, thereby allowing its enforcement to continue. S.B.8 prohibits doctors from providing […]
Thursday, September 2, 2021 | news
Late last night, a 5-4 majority of the United States Supreme Court issued an unsigned, one-paragraph opinion in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson allowing Texas’ new law banning the vast majority of abortions in the State to stand and, as a result, depriving millions of women of their constitutional rights. Texas’s law is both unconstitutional […]
Friday, October 1, 2021 | news
Yesterday, the University of Washington released a new study finding that more than half of all police killings between 1980 and 2019 were mislabeled and uncounted. The study also found that Black men are disproportionately killed by police and that, compared to men of other races, Black men’s deaths are disproportionately mislabeled by coroners or […]
Wednesday, December 22, 2021 | news
Today, the Biden administration announced that it would extend its pause on student loan repayments — which were scheduled to resume on February 1, 2022 — for an additional 90 days. Citing the continuing hardships brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the administration said the extension would not end until May 1, 2022, at the […]
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 | news
Yesterday, former Texas police officer Aaron Dean was sentenced to 11 years and 10 months in prison for manslaughter in the killing of Atatiana Jefferson in October 2019. In response to this sentencing, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement: “Atatiana Jefferson, like Breonna Taylor, like every Black person […]
Friday, June 25, 2021 | news
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced today to 22.5 years in prison for second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter for killing George Floyd in May 2020. In response, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement: “While the sentencing of Derek Chauvin brings […]
