Solitary confinement will be an obsolete and wholly unnecessary practice when our government dedicates itself to eliminating racism from the criminal justice system and places more emphasis on rehabilitation, treatment for addiction, safe and effective reentry, and helping with housing and employment. –Excerpt from NLG testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Yesterday the NLG submitted testimony for the record […]
Category Archives: Announcements
NLG Calls on President Obama to Protect Consumer Privacy Rights
On the two-year anniversary of the publication of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights (CPBR), the National Lawyers Guild is one of 40 organizations urging Washington to protect privacy rights in the digital age. Joining the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Center for Digital Democracy, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the NLG urged President Obama to put […]
The NLG Urges U.S. to Respect Venezuelan Sovereignty
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls on Congress and the Secretary of State John Kerry to oppose U.S. intervention in the ongoing conflict in Venezuela, as a violent campaign brought by Venezuela’s extreme right-wing opposition seeks to topple the recently elected government. Certain opposition leaders have called these anti-government demonstrations “La Salida” (the Ousting), revealing […]
18th IADL Congress in Brussels, April 15-19
The National Lawyers Guild is a proud member of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), an international organization of jurists’ associations that have made the violation of human rights and threats to international peace and security legal issues under international law, since 1946. The President of IADL is longtime Guild member and NLG International Committee (IC) […]
NLG Remains In Solidarity with Prairieland Defendants after Extreme Sentencing
Today, eight defendants in the Prairieland case were sentenced to prison, with a combined time of 450 years. Each of the defendants received sentences ranging from 30 to 100 years in federal prison. This is a grave injustice and nothing short of malicious political persecution by the federal government. On Fourth of July 2025, these […]
National Lawyers Guild’s Commentary for the Congressional Record of June 9, 2026, Hearing, “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
Today, NLG submitted the following statement to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary in condemnation of its attacks against Southern Poverty Law Center: Pursuant to the 119th Congress Rules of Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, the National Lawyers Guild (“NLG”), the nation’s largest and oldest progressive bar association, timely submits the following […]
