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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A New Report Finds NYPD Failed to Document Nearly 10,000 Stops in 2025, Findings and Reveals how NYPD Continues to Flout ...

Immigrants’ rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit today challenging President Trump’s new executive order targeting ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Nine organizations representing immigrants, communities of color, and workers — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Mi Familia en Accion, OCA – ...

Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, leaders from prominent national Black and Latino civil rights and advocacy organizations hosted a press conference to underscore the urgent need to protect ...