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 […]
Friday, May 2, 2025 | news
The organizations are considering all available options to continue pursuing their claims in court. Washington, DC – Today, a federal judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction in National Urban League v. Trump, a lawsuit filed by a group of civil and human rights organizations challenging three executive orders that ban diversity, equity, inclusion, and […]
Thursday, July 11, 2024 | news
Today, LDF and civil and human rights groups sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardoza urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the allegations of law enforcement abuses —in response to peaceful protests occurring in cities and on university campuses across the country — that may […]
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 | news
WASHINGTON – Just as a cloture petition was filed in the Senate for Congressman Mel Watt’s nomination to be the next director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), civil and human rights groups are calling for his swift confirmation.In a letter to the Senate, 54 organizations cite Congressman Watts’ 40 years of experience in […]
Thursday, February 23, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Civil and Human Rights Community Condemns Rescission of Title IX Guidance Clarifying Protections for Transgender Students Today The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the National Center for Transgender Equality, GLSEN, the National Women’s Law Center, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the American Civil […]
