Monday, November 21, 2022 | news
On Sunday, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five people and injured 25 others in a mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs. The horrendous attack came on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance and after an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric across the nation. He has since been charged with five […]
Monday, December 30, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today condemned the brutal killing of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death by a group of corrections officers at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York. LDF President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement: “The Legal Defense Fund condemns the sadistic and violent killing of Robert […]
Saturday, October 29, 2022 | news
Yesterday, a spokesperson for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed that an assailant broke into the Speaker’s residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted her husband, Paul Pelosi. Mr. Pelosi has since been hospitalized and is expected to make a full recovery. Later in the day, the San Francisco Police Department announced that David Depape is […]
Friday, January 30, 2026 | news
Yesterday, independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, along with two other individuals, were arrested after reporting on protest activity last week at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. The journalists were covering demonstrators, some of whom were arrested, who were denouncing a Cities Church pastor’s apparent employment as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official […]
Thursday, January 25, 2024 | news
Tonight, unless the United States Supreme Court intervenes, the state of Alabama will execute Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen gas, the first ever execution of its kind. Alabama officials will strap Mr. Smith to a gurney, affix a respirator mask to his face, and pump nitrogen gas into the mask until Mr. Smith dies due […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | news
Today, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais, a case about equal representation for Black voters in Louisiana and the role of race in redistricting. The case comes on appeal following a divided district court decision finding that Louisiana’s map, which included an […]
Monday, September 21, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) submitted comments regarding the implementation of the Ferguson Consent Decree. It has been five years since the approval of the consent decree and much of the work remains undone. LDF is concerned that several actions taken or contemplated by Ferguson officials are inconsistent with the […]
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | news
On October 1, 2024, LDF sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin regarding the hearing “A Threat to Justice Everywhere: Stemming the Tide of Hate Crimes in America” held on September 17, 2024. The letter expressed strong concerns about the conduct of certain members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who made hateful […]
Friday, November 15, 2019 | news
RE: Comments on Baltimore Police Department’s Draft Baltimore School Police MOU Assessment Report Dear Mr. Thompson: On behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), I write to provide comments on the Baltimore Police Department’s (BPD) draft Baltimore School Police MOU Assessment Report (MOU Report or Report), which is required by the […]
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Baltimore Consent Decree monitor Kenneth Thompson to provide comments on the Baltimore Police Department’s (BPD) draft Community Policing Plan (the Plan). The drafted Plan is a first step toward cementing the principles of community policing into all aspects of BPD’s activities […]
