Tuesday, November 7, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Related Case: Free the Vote for People With Felony Convictions Civil Rights & Criminal Justice Reform Organizations File Amicus Brief in Louisiana Felony Disenfranchisement Case Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), The Sentencing Project, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), filed an amicus brief in a […]
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, MALDEF, along with other civil rights and civic engagement organizations, issued the following statement regarding the recently released reapportionment data: The organizations listed below are civil rights and civic engagement organizations that intend to have significant involvement in the state and local redistricting processes to be undertaken in 2011 […]
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our Statement here. Civil and Worker Rights Groups File Amicus Brief Supporting EEOC Guidance on Employer Use of Criminal Background Checks in Hiring Two leading national civil rights and worker rights groups, a Texas civil rights organization, and a Texan today filed an amicus brief in support of an Equal Employment […]
Thursday, September 13, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), along with the National Employment Law Project(“NELP”), Texas State Conference of the NAACP, and Beverly Harrison, a worker once fired because of a criminal conviction, filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Their brief defends the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) Enforcement Guidance […]
Monday, December 11, 2023 | news
Today, a group of civil and voting rights organizations sent a letter urging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Election Alignment Bill which would move the timing of many local elections across the state to even-numbered years, on the same cycle as federal and state elections. As explained in the letter, New York […]
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | news
A coalition of state and national civil and voting rights organizations are demanding Mississippi Secretary of State, Michael Watson, to follow Mississippi law, and the Secretary of State’s own published elections calendar, concerning the deadlines for voters to return their mail-in absentee ballots and to cure certain affidavit ballots and rejected absentee ballots in the […]
Thursday, May 25, 2023 | news
Media Contacts Legal Defense Fund – 212-965-2200 / media@naacpldf.org Common Cause in Connecticut – cquickmire@commoncause.org ACLU of Connecticut – 860-992-7645 / media@acluct.org Tonight, the Connecticut Senate voted, with bipartisan support, to pass Senate Bill 1226 (S.B. 1226 or “CTVRA”), a state-level Voting Rights Act that seeks to expand access to the freedom to vote and […]
Thursday, January 30, 2025 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Center for American Progress (CAP) launched an educational video series State Voting Rights Acts (State VRAs): Explained. More than 300 state and national civil and voting rights advocates joined the series launch event, to hear from national voting rights leaders […]
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Lambda Legal claim these orders will severely limit organizations’ ability to provide critical social and health services. Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of nonprofit advocacy organizations challenging three anti-equity executive orders from President Trump related to diversity, equity, inclusion, […]
Saturday, March 1, 2025 | news
Yesterday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and co-counsel Lambda Legal filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in National Urban League v. Trump, a federal lawsuit challenging three executive orders by President Trump banning diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility and erasing transgender people from public life. The motion asks the United States District Court for […]
