Wednesday, February 19, 2014 | case-update
On February 18, 2014—more than two years after LDF filed its complaint in Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners, et al.—a federal district court ordered the immediate implementation of a district-based remedial plan to cure the violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act that it found […]
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of South Carolina, and Arnold & Porter filed a motion today in the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a federal court’s ruling that South Carolina’s Congressional District 1 was a racial gerrymander and designed with discriminatory purpose. The motion was filed on behalf of […]
Friday, April 7, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Wiggins, Childs, Pantazis, Fisher & Goldfarb filed a lawsuit on behalf of Cara McClure, Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM), and the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP challenging the Jefferson County Commission districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. The plaintiffs allege that the Commission violated the 14th Amendment of the […]
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 | case-update
Historic Elections Take Place in Fayette County, Georgia Fair Electoral Opportunity for Black Voters Arrives in Fayette County, Georgia Our nation recently commemorated the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education on May 17, 1954. Brown ended legally enforced segregation in our country’s public schools and overturned the “separate but […]
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 | news
Historic Elections Take Place in Fayette County, Georgia Fair Electoral Opportunity for Black Voters Arrives in Fayette County, Georgia Our nation recently commemorated the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education on May 17, 1954. Brown ended legally enforced segregation in our country’s public schools and overturned the […]
Thursday, August 8, 2024 | page
Black Voters on the Rise How LDF’s Holistic Initiative is Building Black Political Power at a Critical Moment for American Democracy By Amir Badat, Voting Rights Special Counsel and Black Voters on the Rise Manager and Victoria Wenger, Black Voters on the Rise Attorney This week marks 59 years since the signing of the Voting […]
Thursday, February 8, 2024 | news
BATON ROUGE, La. — Black voters and civil rights groups moved to intervene in a new lawsuit late yesterday that would invalidate the congressional redistricting plan enacted just weeks ago. The map was drawn in response to a long-running Voting Rights Act case in which two federal courts ruled Louisiana must create a second majority-Black […]
Monday, March 25, 2024 | news
State has asked to use discriminatory Congressional voting map in 2024. WASHINGTON (March 25, 2024) — South Carolina should not be able to hold elections using racially gerrymandered congressional districts in this year’s elections, according to a response filed Monday in the case Alexander v. S.C. NAACP. Voters in South Carolina are awaiting a decision […]
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | news
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Black voters asked the Supreme Court to take up a case to determine whether Louisiana will maintain the map enacted by the state legislature this year, which includes two majority-Black districts, following the 2024 elections. The appeal in Robinson v. Callais comes after the Court granted an emergency stay in May, […]
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and co-counsel Neil Bradley, on behalf of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, Fayette County Branch of the NAACP, and ten Black voters, have successfully settled a transformative Voting Rights Act (VRA) lawsuit against the Board of Commissioners (BOC), Board of Education (BOE), and other […]
