the court granted a preliminary injunction motion suspending service changes that had disrupted mail delivery. The court issued a series of additional orders leading up to the November 2020 General Election, which required the US Postal Service to take extraordinary measures to ensure the timely delivery of ballots and to provide daily updates about the delivery status of mail-in ballots. LDF represented the NAACP and individuals in the litigation. 2022: Merrill v. Milligan, on January 24, 2022, a three-judge court in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama granted a preliminary injunction and ruled that the State of Alabama's 2021 congressional districts violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The court ordered Alabama to devise a remedial plan with an additional district where Black voters would have the opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. On February 7, 2022, the Supreme Court stayed the district court's injunction. The order noted probable jurisdiction on appeal from the district court's order, and LDF argued the case on behalf of the Milligan plaintiffs in the Supreme Court in October 2022. Prominent LDF alumni A number of prominent attorneys have been affiliated with LDF over the years, including Barack Obama who was an LDF cooperating attorney. The following, non-exhaustive list of LDF alumni demonstrates the breadth of positions these attorneys have held or currently hold in public service, the government, academia, the private sector, and other areas. Debo Adegbile, former acting President-Director Counsel for LDF (2012–2013), argued twice in the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act, and a current Commissioner for the United States Civil Rights Commission. Derrick A. Bell Jr., the first tenured African-American Harvard Law School professor, professor at New York University School of Law, and preeminent Critical Race Theorist. Victor Allen Bolden, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Jacqueline A. Berrien, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate on December 22, 2010. Immediately prior to her appointment, Ms. Berrien was the Director of Litigation and Associate Director-Counsel for LDF. Jocelyn Benson is the Secretary of State of Michigan. She is also the former Dean of Wayne State University Law School. She was a summer legal intern at LDF. Robert L. Carter, an assistant counsel at LDF until its 1956 separation from the NAACP,