Immigrants’ Rights Advocates File Federal Lawsuit Challenging New Trump Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

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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 ...

LDF Strongly Condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision to Restore Trump Administration’s SAVE Database

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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 ...

LDF Decries U.S. Department of Justice Dismissal of Over Fifty Federal School Desegregation Cases

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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 ...

LDF Strongly Urges the U.S. Department of Education to Reject Proposed New Rules on Higher Education Accreditation

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 ...

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