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Federal Appellate Court Strikes Blow Against Washington State’s Felon Disfranchisement
in Significant Voting Rights Case Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Washington State’s law denying
the vote to people with felony convictions is racially discriminatory and violates
the Voting Rights Act (VRA). “This significant ruling recognizes that racial discrimination in Washington’s
criminal justice system has infected the State’s political process,” said John
Payton, LDF Director-Counsel. “The result is that Black, Latino and Native
America ...
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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is the finest human rights law firm in American history. That was true in the past and it remains true today. LDF's impact has been profound. Yet great challenges related to racial justice remain. Many of these challenges are mutations of earlier ones; some are new. All however demand the continued effort, commitment, and expertise of LDF. The mission of LDF is to see that African Americans become full, equal and thriving participants in our democracy. At its core, democracy requires that all of the people be included in "we the ...
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justice, succeeded him as NAACP counsel. Marshall further developed the strategies and goals of the legal department. In 1957 Marshall established LDF as an organization totally independent of the NAACP. 1 The board of directors of the NAACP created the Legal Defense Fund in 1939 specifically for tax purposes. Intimidated by the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service, the Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc., became a separate legal entity in 1957, although it was clear that it was to operate in accordance with NAACP policy. After 1961 serious disputes emerged between the two organizations, creating ...
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In the past 24 hours, more than a few pundits and writers have noted that the NAACP resolution accusing Tea Partiers of racism is hard to swallow when the NAACP seems unconcerned with the New Black Panther voting intimidation case. Their points would be valid by analogy only. Their points are even more valid, though, because of a direct, rather than just analagous, tie between the NAACP and the Panther case. It was first reported here at the Washington Times that “Kristen Clarke, director of political participation at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Washington, however, confirmed to ... Read More
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William L. Taylor’s death on June 28th deprived the civil rights community of a valued friend and colleague and America of a stalwart champion of freedom. We at the Legal Defense Fund were especially affected because Bill Taylor’s first job out of Yale Law School in 1954 was at LDF, working under Thurgood Marshall, as was mentioned in the brief tribute LDF posted on its website. We have reprinted that tribute here as an introduction to what should be required reading for all interested in fully understanding the work of the multi-racial “beloved community” that in the middle of the twentieth century propelled the black American ...
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from Quin Hillyer, writing in the Washington Times – namely, that the same NAACP which is spending its time playing the race card from the bottom of the deck against the Tea Party movement is in bed with the New Black Panther Party. Or at least it sure seems that way, given that while the U.S. Civil Rights Commission is investigating the Justice Department’s intentional dropping of the ball on the New Black Panthers case last year, it’s been uncovered that an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund was pressuring DOJ to drop the New Black Panther case. Per the testimony of DOJ whistleblower J. Christian Adams ...
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(left to right) Julianne Malveaux, Honorary Chair Delta Social Action Commission; Marcia Fudge, Chair Delta Social Action Commission; Theodore Shaw, LDF Director-Counsel and President; Louise Rice, National President Delta Sigma Theta Sorority; Elaine R. Jones, LDF President and Director-Counsel Emeritus; Gladys Vaughn, Co-Chair DeltaSocial Action Commission; and Kemba Smith, President Kemba Smith Foundation. (Photo by Marvin T. Jones) Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. has pledged a million dollars to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) to support its voting rights work. The gift will mark the 40th Anniversary ...
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On Tuesday, President Obama issued a report outlining the federal government’s first national HIV/AIDS strategy plan. The plan calls for reducing the HIV infection rate by 25 percent within five years. But AIDS activists worry that the alarming infection rates among African Americans will not be reduced without additional federal spending, better federal coordination and a willingness of people to avoid risky sexual behavior. In addition to setting a target of reducing HIV infections by 25 percent, the plan seeks to increase the proportion of people who know their HIV status from 79 percent to 90 percent by 2015. It also lists ...
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This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," July 15, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, HOST: The resolution passed by the NAACP that condemned elements of the Tea Party movement as racist is drawing fire. It seems somewhat hypocritical given the organization's apparent lack of concern over the voter intimidation charges leveled at the New Black Panther Party. But it now appears that the NAACP may have played an instrumental role in the dismissal of that case. Now The Washington Times reports that the director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Political Participation ...
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The U.S. Department of Justice will mount a vigorous defense against a Shelby County lawsuit that seeks to have parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ruled unconstitutional, a DOJ spokeswoman said.
The federal lawsuit asks a judge to strike down parts of the Voting Rights Act that require governmental bodies in mostly southern states to get approval from the Justice Department before making any changes related to voting.
The county contends the requirement is an unconstitutional intrusion into the county's right to conduct its elections.
The Justice Department argues in a recently filed legal brief that parts of ...
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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE. AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. REPORT ON. THE NOMINATION OF. JUDGE SAMUEL A. ALITO, JR. TO THE SUPREME COURT. OF THE UNITED STATES ...
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tained by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund lawyers on behalf of Roy Bell , an Atlanta dentist. In the summer of 1962, Dr. Bell, Dr. Clinton Warner, ...
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This case requires us to decide whether the Federal Government violates
the First Amendment when it excludes legal defense and political advocacy
organizations from participation in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC
or Campaign), a charity drive aimed at federal employees. I The CFC is an annual charitable fundraising drive conducted in the federal
workplace during working hours largely through the voluntary efforts of
federal employees. At all times relevant to this litigation, participating
organizations confined their fundraising activities to a 30-word statement
submitted by them for inclusion in the Campaign ...
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On December 30 — a time of year when most people’s attention is not on the news — the administration released the latest list of White House visitors. Going through the list takes quite a while, but doing so reveals some rather startling “coincidences” — meetings between Justice Department political appointees known to be involved in the dismissal and a White House deputy counsel that coincide with key dates in the New Black Panther saga. Some of the meetings appear to have followed a regular schedule. Others were set up on short notice and break from the pattern in unusual ways, particularly as they are matched up against some ...
