United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the military will livestream the firing squad execution ...
Last night, one or more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers shot and injured Oscar Belgal, an immigrant man ...
On October 5, 2026, it was announced that President Trump greenlit the first U.S. military execution by firing squad since ...
Opinion
LDF Strongly Condemns the Trump Administration’s Proposed Rules for a Federal Voucher Program
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) strongly condemns the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s release of proposed regulations on the nation’s first ever federal private school voucher program. The federal ...
Jonathon Harris, then-student body president at Clarksdale High School, approached his school’s administrators with a request brought to him by many of his fellow Black students: they wanted a Black ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Advancement Project, and 14 other civil rights organizations yesterday urged governors in all fifty states and the District of Columbia to reject the invitation for ...
On March 31, 2026, President Trump issued a sweeping Executive Order seeking once again to seize control of election administration from Congress and the states and interfere with mail voting ...
In 2018, Washington became the second state in the country to pass a State Voting Rights Act (VRA). Modeled after the successful, but narrower, California Voting Rights Act of 2001, the Washington ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. On Sept. 28, the U.S. Senate passed the Protect College Sports Act (PCSA), an irresponsible piece of legislation that threatens the financial security and success ...
Law enforcement officers are ill-equipped to address most 911 calls. 1 Policing has become a catch-all response for issues stemming from inadequate support for and investment in the health and ...
The First Circuit Court of Appeals today kept in place through the Nov. 3 election a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing key parts of a new rule that would ...
To’Nea Nicole Miller, a 27-year-old Black woman, was found dead hanging from a tree in Gwen Cherry Park in Miami Florida on June 18, 2026. Only two days later, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s office and ...
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