The outlook for the legislation, which seeks to stabilize the unsettled collegiate sports landscape, is uncertain in the House. It was one of the last congressional actions before the midterms.

IN BRIEF: Today, the U.S.

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision allowing the Trump Administration to resume use of the flawed, expanded federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database t...

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a misleading announcement, claiming that it had “ended” more than 50 federal school desegregation cases. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) decried the...

Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted

Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted letters to Congress and to the United Nations urging officials to take immediate action to examine the growing number of suspicious deaths of Black people...

The move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) of 2026 legislative package into law. The CVRA of 2026 consists of two bills (SB1164 and SB1360) that together wi...

Lawsuit argues that the federal government is intimidating voters and chilling civic participation, violating the Voting Rights Act  WASHINGTON, DC — Nine organizations representing immigrants, commun...

Court leaves a preliminary injunction in place through the November election; USPS cannot withhold mail ballots from voters  In a major win for voting rights, election integrity, and democracy, the U....

Justices turn down administration’s bid to have Postal Service enforce new voting requirements before midterms.

Read the PDF of our statement here. On Tuesday, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III announced his retirement from the Smithsonian Institution, marking the end of his historic tenure as its 14th Secretary of...

Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted in a special session to rescind Standard 206, which required la...

Bunch, the first Black person and first historian to lead the institution, said he has “mixed emotions” about departing.

Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted letters to Congress and to the United Nations urging officials to take immediate action to examine the growing number of suspicious deaths of Black people...

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.

The Legal Defense Fund today issued a letter to the Tarrant County Commissioners Court in Texas, strongly urging them to reject any proposal to eliminate poll sites. The Commissioners Court recently a...

Read a PDF of our statement here.  Today, the U.S. Treasury Department proposed new regulations that would remove tax-exempt status from private universities, as well as private primary, secondary, pr...

This isn't just a story about a member of Congress. It's a warning about the cost of holding power accountable.

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

County commissioners approved a list of sites that drew criticism from voting rights advocates and local civic groups.

Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he took his own life on a busy highway after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants and ICE officers placed him in an ankle mo...

The temporary restraining order will remain in place for 14 days while the parties brief the pending motion for a preliminary injunction BOSTON — This evening, a federal court granted voting rights or...

Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted letters to Congress and to the United Nations urging officials to take immediate action to examine the growing number of suspicious deaths of Black people...

Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and fifteen other civil and human rights legal organizations issued a letter to the Council Chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) of the Section of Legal Ed...

Legal Groups That Secured Supreme Court Birthright Victory Move to Protect Babies From Trump’s Latest Attacks on Citizenship

Sixty-one years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 into law. The VRA was the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement, ending discriminatory practices us...

The Texas senator is a crucial vote on the attorney general nominee in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is set to vote Tuesday.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wouldn’t object to temporarily withdrawing Todd Blanche as his nominee for attorney general amid resistance from two Republican senators, another major blo...

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

One of the attorney general’s most important jobs is telling the president “no.”

Legal Defense Fund President Janai Nelson joins Alex Witt to break down President Trump’s unfounded claims about the 2020 election and Trump’s push to pass the SAVE Act, which could disenfranchise cer...