Tuesday, April 15, 2014 | news
In The Houston Chronicle, Sherrilyn Ifill argues that the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in McCutcheon vs. Federal Election Commission, in which the Court gives even greater influence to wealthy donors in elections, cheapens the act of voting. She cites the opening sentence of Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in which he writes: “There is no […]
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 | news
*Update Oct 16, 2014 @ 12:00 PM: Watch video recording of debate on C-SPAN. Sherrilyn Ifill and Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation will discuss the likely impact of recent court rulings, new state election laws and voter ID laws on the upcoming mid-term elections at a Newsmakers news conference on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 10 […]
Monday, December 2, 2013 | news
In today’s National Law Journal, Sherrilyn Ifill, along with Stephen Bright, president and senior counsel of the Southern Center for Human Rights and Virginia Sloan, president of The Constitution Project, jointly pen an op-ed on the shortage of indigent defense representation. “Lawyers, Not Another Commission, for the Poor” argues that now is the time for […]
Thursday, May 22, 2014 | news
Today, Sherrilyn A. Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (NAACP LDF), addressed New York University Law School’s 2014 graduates in a single ceremony at Madison Square Garden honoring both JDs and LLMs. Ifill, who received her Juris Doctor degree from NYU Law School in 1987, noted that 2014 is a […]
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 | ldf-perspectives
If Brown v. Board is Not Sacred, What is? Since the Supreme Court’s momentous decision in Brown v. Board of Education 65 years ago, there has been universal consensus within the legal community that the opinion striking down de jure segregation in our schools was correctly decided. As the most important civil rights ruling in […]
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 | news
ABC News takes a look at the percentage breakdown of the population in support of, and critical of, recent Supreme Court rulings on the Voting Right Act and in same-sex marriage. The research reveals continued idealogical differences among racial, gender, educational and generational lines. Read the full article here.
Friday, May 21, 2021 | case-issue
I.S. v. Binghamton School District was filed on April 29, 2019 by LDF and Morrison & Foerster LLP against the Binghamton School District on behalf of parents whose twelve-year-old daughters were subjected to an illegal strip search in January. The lawsuit comes after the school district failed to rectify the situation, including a refusal to issue an […]
Friday, October 5, 2012 | news
An I-Team investigation uncovers the ethnic discrepancies at New York’s best public schools, and why groups are pushing for a change to the admission exam at schools like Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech. Melissa Russo reports. View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com.
Friday, September 28, 2012 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has filed a complaint charging an admissions test given at eight elite New York City high schools discriminates against blacks and Latinos. At this point, the only factor considered for admission to one of the specialized public schools is a student’s score on a standardized test. “Even Harvard doesn’t do that. […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Natural disasters can devastate communities, wreaking havoc on housing, employment stability, transportation, and infrastructure. As we learned after Hurricane Katrina, these corollary effects are often exacerbated for low-income and minority families, due in part to the limited resources these households had before the disaster and the lack of organized networks to advocate on their behalf. […]
