Tuesday, January 27, 2015 | news
LDF commends the U.S. Senate HELP Committee for advancing reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Passed on the heels of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ESEA is the largest federal education funding bill. Since its expiration in 2007, Congress has yet to agree on a bill to reauthorize ESEA. LDF encourages […]
Friday, December 16, 2022 | case-issue
Thursday, October 27, 2022 | page
Criminal Justice and Policing Qualified Immunity Working Group QI FAQ QI Cases Media LDF’s Qualified Immunity Working Group advocates for the end of qualified immunity through litigation and public advocacy. The Group litigates civil rights cases in the federal courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court to limit the doctrine’s reach. It does […]
Friday, December 16, 2022 | case-issue
Monday, June 11, 2012 | news
What’s old is new. Florida’s Secretary of State Ken Detzner is boldly refusing to comply with the Department of Justice’s demand that the state stop its efforts to purge voters from the registration rolls. On Wednesday, he sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice claiming that the purge should go forward. Read the […]
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 | staff
Puneet serves as Manager, Justice in Public Safety Project. Before joining LDF, Puneet was a Staff Attorney at Lambda Legal, where she led and participated in impact litigation, policy, and advocacy to prevent and address discrimination against LGBTQ people in schools, employment, health care, and the criminal legal system, and to secure access to accurate […]
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 | news
The state of Alabama has told the NAACP Legal Defense Fund that public housing Identification will not be accepted as a form of photo ID to vote at the polls. LDF has written the Secretary of State’s office requesting that this form of ID, which for many people of color is their only form of ID, be […]
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 | news
Public Citizen, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today submitted a joint comment on the U.S. Postal Service’s proposal to lengthen the time for delivery of First-Class Mail. Public Citizen, NAACP, and LDF urge the Postal Service not to adopt a […]
Thursday, March 6, 2014 | news
As part of our efforts to protect the right to vote across the country, LDF’s Political Participation Group wrote a letter to the Alabama Secretary of State, Jim Bennett, urging him to allow thousands of people to continue to vote under Alabama’s new voter photo identification (photo ID) law. In the letter, Ryan Haygood and […]
Monday, August 19, 2024 | case-issue
