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Allen Liu

Allen Liu serves as a Policy Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund. He works on policy efforts to advance racial equity in education and advocacy against the privatization of public education. Allen was also a member of the Justice in Public Safety Project where he worked to hold law enforcement accountable and create a system […]

All Hands On Deck: Closing the COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Gap in Maryland

All Hands on Deck: Closing the COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Gap in Maryland April 23, 2021 On March 1, 2021, Governor Larry Hogan announced Maryland’s plan to improve equity in vaccine distribution. This equity plan included a public-private partnership between Maryland’s health department, the University of Maryland Medical System, and Johns Hopkins Medicine to focus […]

Alice M. Beasley

Alexsis Johnson

Alexsis Johnson serves as a Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF).  Prior to joining LDF, Alexsis served as a law clerk to the Honorable Cornelia T.L. Pillard on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the Honorable Margo K. Brodie on the U.S. District Court for […]

Alexandra Thompson

Alexandra Thompson (she/her/hers) serves as Senior Counsel Prior to joining LDF, Alexandra was a Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights (Center). Alexandra’s litigation work included cases challenging various abortion restrictions in the United States such as pre-viability abortion bans, and targeted regulations of abortion providers. She also worked to expand access to medication abortion care, and co-authored a commentary published in the […]

Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP

Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP Challenging Racial Gerrymandering at the Supreme Court Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP was a U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged South Carolina’s congressional redistricting map as a racial gerrymander designed with discriminatory purpose under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the U.S. […]

Alexa Smith

Albany Judge Upholds Law Ending Prison-Based Gerrymandering

Victory for Civil Rights, Fair Representation Removes Any Doubt That Redistricting Body Can Proceed Under New Law Albany, NY – New York Supreme Court Justice Eugene Devine today upheld New York’s law ending prison-based gerrymandering in the Little v. LATFOR lawsuit.  The case was argued on behalf of intervenors by Dale Ho, Assistant Counsel with […]

Alaizah Koorji

Alaizah Koorji is Senior Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, where she works on voting rights, criminal justice and educational equity. Alaizah leads LDF’s amicus team in André et al. v. Clayton County, Georgia on behalf of Black comedians Eric Andre and Clayton English, who, on their way to board their flights out of the […]

Alabama’s Voter ID Law Blamed for at Least 282 Ballots Uncounted in Primary

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is alleging that at least 282 ballots in the state’s June 3 primary election were not counted due to Alabama’s law requiring voters to show a valid photo identification card. In a letter dated today to Jean W. Brown, the Alabama Secretary of State’s chief […]