Pam Bondi facilitated the desecration of the Justice Dept—the primary agency tasked to protect against discrimination. Her firing doesn’t mean corruption & ineptitude have been eradicated. It means the Senate owes Àmerica a competent, ethical replacement. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

Trump has a body count of disbarred lawyers that should make anyone who wants to continue to practice law after he becomes a distant nightmare think twice about being his DOJ nominee. Pam Bondi is likely the next casualty.

BREAKING: LDF, ACLU, ACLU of MA, Brennan Center, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, and LatinoJustice PRLDEF Challenge Executive Order on Mail-In Ballots as Illegal Interference in Elections - www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

You’re fired.” It appears the sycophantic delusion of Trump’s loyalists blinded them to the fact that he runs the government like a ratings-slipping TV show. The accountability that will follow will wake them up quick. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

A decision undermining birthright citizenship “could open the door and create a kind of slippery slope,” LDF atty Morenike Fajana, “Other protections we think of now as settled & protected & unmovable could also be subject to the same sorts of rollbacks.” capitalbnews.org/supreme-cour...

Cecilia Wang, you were absolutely phenomenal today. Birthright citizenship could not have a better champion and advocate! LDFxACLUxLULACxAsianLawCaucusxDemocracyDefenders

LDF Denounces Mail Ballot Executive Order: Despite Trump’s claims, this isn’t about election security—it’s abt shrinking the electorate & controlling who can vote. Mail-in voting is a safe, secure & effective method that nearly 1 in 3 Americans-incl’g Trump-rely on. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

Rough day for Trump in the courts today: - Ballroom halted - Order to stop NPR/PBS funding blocked - No immunity for civil cases related to J6

Congress rejected Trump’s Stop All Voters Everywhere-SAVE Act so he issued another illegal voter suppression executive order. This one aims to make mail-in voting impossible by compromising voter privacy, overburdening USPS and threatening prosecutions. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Gullah-Geechee communities have been forcibly losing land to developers for decades. LDF is proud to continue its longstanding work advocating for this historic community by investigating a new Hilton Head Land Management Ordinance. Land preserves heritage. www.islandpacket.com/news/local/a...

This Women’s History Month, The Root asked several women: Whose shoulders do you stand on? @janainelson.bsky.social, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, shares the insights she’s gained from icons like Marie Foster and Annie Lee Cooper on unbreakable courage.

LDF Condemns Dismissal of Charges Against Officers Involved in Breonna Taylor’s Death-An officer who betrays the public’s trust by falsifying a warrant should not be shielded from accountability under the law. Our hearts go out to Breonna Taylor’s family & community. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

On Wednesday SCOTUS will hear argument in the most significant challenge to the 14th Amendment this century. Trump v. Barbara challenges Trump’s attempt to rewrite the Citizenship Clause through an executive order banning birthright citizenship. 1/ www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

That beam when you come to honor one of the most brilliant minds this country has known—and one you are fortunate to call sister and friend. Congratulations, @sherrilynifill on your NYU LACA Award and for delivering one of the greatest acceptance speeches ever!

Ghana and the African Union have laudably led the world in passing an historic resolution to recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity.” The United States, Israel & Argentina voted no & most EU countries (the primary perpetrators) abstained.

Brava, Senator Murkowski for standing strong against Stop All Voters Everywhere aka SAVE America Act! Alaskans, many of whom live in rural settings—and especially Indigenous citizens, would be significantly harmed by this voter suppression law. www.msn.com/en-us/news/i...

Another disastrous and under-qualified cabinet confirmation at a moment when we can ill afford it. It will be important for media not to normalize a pick who in a normal world be utterly absurd just because he follows a confirmed walking catastrophe. apnews.com/article/mull...

1) Today’s SCOTUS argument in Watson v. RNC on whether the longstanding practice of counting mail-in ballots sent by or before Election Day is legal failed to center the impact ending this practice would have on voters of color. LDF, @LawyersComm & others briefed this issue.

For 62 yrs poll taxes requiring Americans to pay to vote have been banned. Trump wants an end run around the 24th Amend by forcing ppl to pay for passports or birth certificates when voters are easily verified by other means. The Senate must VOTE NO on the SAVE ACT which STOPS ALL VOTERS EVERYWHERE.

SAVE Act: Stops All Voters Everywhere 146 million voters w/o passports 70 million women who changed their names 1/2 of Black citizens under 30 who don’t have ID w/ current name & address Disabled & elderly who can’t register in person  Rural voters far from election offices

Never forget that this admin pardoned domestic terrorists who violently attacked law enforcement at the Capitol but protects them almost without fail when they abuse Black people. The Justice Dept has zero legitimacy. The court should reject this effort out of hand www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

On March 20, 1940, LDF was founded under Thurgood Marshall’s leadership. We imagined and delivered an America that did not yet exist. For 86 years, we have continued to fight for a nation where racial justice and the promise of equality are real for all Americans. And we will not stop.

Wondering why the “SAVE Act” is one of the most senseless bills in Congress and why it must fail so that you can vote? Watch this breakdown on @weeknightmsnow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=38XV...

The SAVE Act makes it harder for everyone to vote. @janainelson.bsky.social joined @ms.now to discuss how the SAVE Act saves no one.

The Senate is scheduled to take up one of the most harmful voter suppression bills in recent memory. I spoke on MSNOW about the extreme nature of the SAVE Act, which is an attempt to steal the midterms before a single ballot is cast, and how to stop it. youtu.be/-x7-JWatauM

We mourn the loss of Lewis E. Lehrman, co-founder and co-chairman of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and former LDF board member. Mr. Lehrman was a renown civic leader, policy advocate, and philanthropist. May he rest in eternal peace. www.gilderlehrman.org/about/lewis-...

Appreciation post for Ryan and Zinzi Coogler. Thank you for seeing and showing us in all our depth, complexity, pain, and beauty. Congratulations on setting and the continually raising the bar. We are rewarded by your catalogue of films, your vision, and your fearlessness.

Looking forward to talking about the biggest threat to voting and our elections—and how we can prepare and fight back to win.

BREAKING: We just won a TRO in our case with Muslim Advocates to stop the cancellation of TPS for Somalia: “The March 17, 2026, effective date of the termination of Somalia’s TPS designation, published at 91 Fed. Reg. 1547, is hereby STAYED subject to further order of the Court.”

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BREAKING: LDF, Muslim Advocates & Haitian Bridge Alliance filed a 96-page complaint in fed court challenging the Trump admin’s termination of TPS (temporary protected status) for Somalia which puts ICE targets on the backs of Somali & adjacent communities. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

On the heels of our annual pilgrimage to Selma, this loss just hits different. May Dr. Bernard LaFayette rest in peace and power. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

Two consequential developments threaten the midterm elections. My new piece in ⁦‪@thenation‬⁩ explains how a seemingly innocuous change to Postal Service procedure & the so-called SAVE Act—if passed—could have dire ramifications. But we can fight back. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Selma reunions are the best—from colleagues like fmr Assistant AG for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke, President of the Lawyers Committee Damon Hewitt & head of NJ Institute for Social Justice Ryan Haygood to LDF clients in the landmark Allen v. Milligan case, Khadidah Stone & Shalela Dowdy.

“What we care most about is that justice is delivered. As long as it takes for the justices to deliberate to decide the right thing to do in this case, we will take it.” Will Sutton: Voting rights advocates aren’t waiting for a Callais decision-they’re preparing www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.” Jesse Jackson Since November 2024, LDF’s mantra has been Defend Disrupt Dream. Never surrender.

Bernard Lafayette was a legend in the civil rights movement. He was also a former client of LDF. What an incalculable loss. We lift up his memory in absolute reverence. Bernard LaFayette, Freedom Rider and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85 www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

If you were denied the right to vote in Texas or elsewhere in recent elections, please take a moment to report what happened by calling 1-865-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683) or by filling out information here online. Fixing our elections is a team sport. 866ourvote.org

The interference in Texas’ primary elections is unacceptable. When the Attorney General, who is also a candidate for another office, intervenes on a matter that impacts his own and other elections in which he has an interest, integrity is completely lost. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/p...

Law firms that stood firm and fought against Trump’s bullying should be lauded for their leadership and rewarded with patronage from anyone who seeks fearless resolve in their legal representation. The takeway: never to turn over your lunch money. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

With all the turmoil in the world, last night’s #ImageAwards was a welcome moment of community and celebration—also an opportunity to elevate the message that we want #ICEOUT of American cities and neighborhoods for good.

Always great to be in conversation with @joyannreid! We talked about the attacks journalists, the State of the Union, threats to voting rights—and what we can do about it. www.youtube.com/live/QjDL7BR...

JoAnn Bland demonstrated extraordinary courage in the face of violence and intimidation in her hometown. Ms. Bland carried that courage forward throughout her life by preserving the history of the movement through her leadership. May she rest in power. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

No one who is at all concerned with the national security of the United States can possibly support Trump. This is simply a hideous betrayal of the country and its future in exchange for a bribe.

Trump does not simply want voters to verify who they are. That already happens in every state under threat of criminal penalty. What he wants is to force Americans to show forms of ID that millions do not possess in order to keep them from voting. What’s he afraid of? YOUR VOTE.

Trump’s lies and deception are at such a clip it’s nearly impossible to keep track, but, the blatant, inciteful racist & xenophobic rhetoric against the Somali community is too dangerous & disgusting to be ignored. No one should sit in that chamber giving audience to such hatred.

WATCH LIVE: State of the People TV x The Signal LIVE: The Black People’s Alternative to the State of the Union. While Trump traffics in lies, tune into the truth w/ LDF Dir of Policy Demetria McCain & LDF Thurgood Marshall Institute Dir Karla McKanders. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqRw...

HAPPENING LIVE NOW: On @rolandsmartin’s Ulfiltered LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel Todd Cox discussed the way we win in the courts and in the streets as America braces for the litany of falsehoods that will be on display in the #StateOfTheUnion m.youtube.com/@rolandsmartin