Thursday, February 26, 2015 | news
On November 8, 2014, President Obama nominated Loretta Lynch to be the nation’s 83rd Attorney General. If confirmed, Lynch would be the nation’s first African-American woman to head the Justice Department. Lynch currently serves as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She is impeccably credentialed and has had an extraordinary […]
Friday, June 23, 2023 | news
Yesterday, Michigan legislators introduced Senate Bills 401, 402, 403, and 404 (“Michigan Voting Rights Act” or “MIVRA”), a comprehensive state voting rights act that will expand access and strengthen protections against voting discrimination for communities of color throughout the state. The introduction of the Michigan Voting Rights Act this session marks a first step towards […]
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) commends the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) for revising its Criminal Background Policy Statement. The revisions to HANO’s policy follow many of the recommendations LDF submitted in writing last month. In our letter we requested that the policy be revised so that it did not […]
Friday, December 6, 2019 | news
New York, NY – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives took an historic vote to fully restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965 through the passage of H.R.4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA). Following months of hearings and other evidence-gathering, this important step toward enacting the VRAA is a critical advancement in restoring our […]
Friday, August 16, 2024 | news
Today, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation to establish the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot as a national monument on the 116th anniversary of the brutal attack that galvanized members of the Black community and led to the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Legal […]
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 | news
On Monday, as required by President Biden’s Executive Order on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the launch of the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which will require certain federal law enforcement agencies to provide searchable records of […]
Friday, January 10, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) applauds new guidance regarding Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 released today by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. LDF Director of Policy Demetria McCain issued the following statement: “Today, the Department of Education issued critical new guidance regarding Title VI of the Civil Rights […]
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 | news
In January 2014, DC Councilwoman Muriel Bowser introduced a Proposed Resolution that calls on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”) to revise its criminal records policy. In the Proposed Resolution, Councilwoman Bowser, who also serves as a member of WMATA’s Board of Directors, calls on WMATA to take additional steps to employ people with […]
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and The Arc of the U.S., today applauded a decision delivered Tuesday by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas that struck down certain provisions of S.B. 1, an egregious Texas law that sharply limits voting access. In its ruling, the […]
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 | news
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the anti-democratic independent state legislature (ISL) theory in Moore v. Harper. ISL theory in its most extreme interpretation gives state legislatures full control of elections and voting laws, with no checks and balances from state courts. In Moore, North Carolina legislators had argued that their congressional redistricting map — […]
