Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | case-issue
SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina FAQ The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision, Explained On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina (UNC) and ruled in that the race-conscious admissions policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina […]
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 | news
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision in Ferguson v. McDonough, permitting Joseph Ferguson’s civil rights claims to proceed. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF), working with Rights Behind Bars, represented Mr. Ferguson, who was tased without reason by a police officer in the middle of […]
Friday, February 21, 2025 | page
Policy Advocacy: Education Setting the Record Straight The U.S. Department of Education’s Anti-Opportunity “Dear Colleague Letter” What Schools, Parents and Students Need to Know Source: Shutterstock.com On Feb. 14, 2025, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education (ED OCR) sent a “Dear Colleague” letter grossly misstating the law and threatening to […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 | news
Read the PDF of our joint statement here. Washington, DC, December 14 – The Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ) submitted by Sen. Jeff Sessions as a prerequisite for his confirmation hearing to become U.S. Attorney General lacks hundreds of entries that should have been included and is woefully inadequate in its current form, according to a number of organizations that have examined […]
Monday, January 30, 2017 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) closely monitored the confirmation hearings for Senator Jeff Sessions, nominee for U.S. Attorney General, and Betsy DeVos, nominee for Secretary of Education. Both hearings further demonstrated what the nominees’ records already showed: Senator Sessions is not prepared to lead in the enforcement of our nation’s civil […]
Thursday, December 22, 2016 | ldf-perspectives
By Kyle Barry Policy Counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund With Senator Jeff Sessions’s Attorney General nomination set for a confirmation hearing next month, he and President-elect Trump’s transition team have tried to rebrand his image into one of civil rights hero, asserting, without evidence, that Sessions has a “strong civil rights record.” Yet throughout his entire […]
Monday, March 23, 2020 | page
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) Senior Counsel, Chris Kemmitt, argued before the California Supreme Court in the capital case State v. Miles. The trial in this case occurred shortly after the well-publicized O.J. Simpson trial, and the prosecutor used a question about whether prospective jurors were upset about the verdict in Mr. […]
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
by Kyle Barry, LDF Policy Counsel In tweets and statements, Senate Republicans have emphatically distanced themselves from President Trump’s morally bankrupt response to the violent white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville. When Trump blamed “both sides” and said that “many fine people” were among the torch-bearing neo Nazis, the bipartisan rebuke was swift. Jeff Flake said that “we […]
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | news
WASHINGTON – Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), leading civil rights and law enforcement organizations, and conservative leaders hosted a press call today urging the Senate to confirm Vanita Gupta as the next associate attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice. The Senate is scheduled to hold a hearing on her nomination on March 9. To […]
Friday, December 7, 2018 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to reports that President Trump plans to nominate William P. Barr to serve as attorney general: “At this critical moment in our history, it is essential that the Justice Department is led by someone who […]
