Thursday, May 5, 2011 | news
California’s 80th Assembly District has another claim to fame besides being vast and largely empty: One out of every 11 people in it is a prison inmate who didn’t choose to be there. If Assemblyman Mike Davis gets his way, in a decade, the 80th AD would get even more vast empty land — because […]
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 | ldf-at-work
Thursday, August 17, 2023 | case-issue
Thursday, October 7, 2021 | page
Political Participation Redistricting Updates Fighting for Fair Maps and Protecting Access to the Ballot Box Photo by Allison Shelley for LDF What is redistricting? Redistricting is a process in which, after the census is conducted at the start of every decade, state legislatures evaluate and redraw their state’s electoral maps, usually to account for changes […]
Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | news
Dear Governor DeSantis: On behalf of All Voting is Local Florida, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., League of Women Voters of Florida, Common Cause Florida, American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Campaign Legal Center, SPLC Action Fund, Advancement Project, The National Congress of Black Women, […]
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | news
Photo courtesy Loteria Films In a progress report co-published by Stanford Law School’s “Three Strikes Project” and LDF, the recidivism rate among inmates released under California’s Prop. 36, also known as the Three Strikes Reform Act, continues to be remarkably low. Those released under Prop. 36 have a recidivism rate of 1.3 percent, well below […]
Thursday, May 2, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) issued a statement roundly and unequivocally condemning the rising civil and human rights violations against peaceful protesters across the U.S. and issued a letter calling for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to conduct an immediate investigation into the treatment of peaceful protesters and for the Department of Education (DOE) […]
Thursday, October 8, 2015 | news
(Washington, DC) – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Deputy Secretary John King, Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), other civil rights advocates, teachers, and students in a Capitol Hill roundtable discussion about education policy and funding as the […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Kenneth Reams was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the killing of a white man during the course of an ATM robbery in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, despite another person confessing to committing the crime, clear-cut jury discrimination, and his appointed defense counsel providing extremely ineffective assistance in preparing and arguing his case. […]
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 | news
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the following joint statement on their call with Facebook leadership: “The civil rights community is united in the concerns we have about Facebook’s efforts to […]
