Thursday, September 22, 2016 | news
Tackle racial bias in policing at the root While policing is largely a state and local function, the federal government has the power and obligation to impose this nationwide solution. Annually, it confers at least $2 billion in federal grants to police departments around the country. Tulsa has received $14 million since 2010; Charlotte has gotten $4 million. Larger jurisdictions receive considerably […]
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 | news
Although “voter fraud” has long been on the list of myths perpetuated by state-level Republican leaders to justify onerous voter ID laws, even Republican members of Congress have refused to endorse the president’s views about widespread voter fraud. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said that no federal dollars should be used to support the president’s search for […]
Monday, November 12, 2018 | news
In many ways, Election Day 2018 was a good one for American democracy. Millions of people turned out to vote. An unprecedented number of women are headed to Congress, including the first Native American women and the first Muslim-American women to serve on Capitol Hill. In Florida, voters restored voting rights to more than a million people […]
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 | news
U.S. police chiefs group apologizes for ‘historical mistreatment’ of minorities Sherrilyn Ifill, [President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,] said, “I think Chief Cunningham correctly identifies the need to acknowledge and apologize as a first step, and I don’t want to diminish how important the first step is,” because many police […]
Thursday, September 8, 2016 | news
Without Conservative Supreme Court Majority, Voter-Law Challengers Make Gains Sherrilyn Ifill, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said in a recent interview that trials, with expert witnesses and voluminous records, were instrumental in rebutting the states’ rationale that the laws were needed to combat voter fraud and restore voters’ confidence in the […]
Monday, August 19, 2013 | news
In an opinion piece published in The Root this morning, Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President & Director-Counsel, pens a long manifesto about the state of civil rights in America. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to egregiously undermine the Voting Rights Act and the verdict in the Zimmerman trial, and amid high unemployment […]
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 | news
Source: Slate On Wednesday, the Senate voted 52–48 to acquit President Donald Trump of abuse of power in his efforts to pressure Ukraine to announce an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden. As special counsel Robert Mueller and others have testified, the threats to the 2020 election were already grave. The issues revealed during […]
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 | news
I asked Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, what this institutional silencing signifies. “We should remember that this letter was somehow never made part of the official Senate Judiciary Committee record in 1986, was reportedly kept from public release by the chair of the Committee in 2017, and […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 | news
The Court after Scalia: Affirmative action in a changing Court How will the confirmation of a ninth Justice affect the future of diversity in higher education? After years of going back and forth to the Supreme Court over litigation in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin and its predecessors – and decades of debating […]
Thursday, July 27, 2017 | news
President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission is illegal and unconstitutional — that’s why we filed a lawsuit The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund recently filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission as illegal and unconstitutional. Our complaint makes clear that to falsely allege that voter fraud exists is nothing more […]
