WASHINGTON — Immigrants’ rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit today challenging President Trump’s new executive order targeting birthright citizenship. The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of New Hampshire, ACLU of ...
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 to check voters’ citizenship status, a change ...
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 deceptive announcement. LDF continues to litigate many of these open school desegregation cases. LDF is disheartened by the ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. This week, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) urged the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to reject proposed new rules governing higher education accreditation, warning that the proposal could ...