Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is advocating to reinforce the role that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) plays in blocking redistricting plans that discriminatorily dilute the ability of voters of color to equally participate in the political process.

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation and individual Native voters are seeking to defend the North Dakota State House subdistrict that encompasses the Tribe’s Reservation. The district protects tribal citizens’ right to fair representation and was required by the Voting Rights Act.

This case is a challenge to Maryland’s state legislative redistricting plan, arguing that the plan is an extreme partisan gerrymander that violates the Maryland Constitution. CLC filed an amicus brief discussing the harms of partisan gerrymandering and advocating that the Maryland Court of Appeals...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing the League of Women Voters of Utah (LWV), Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) and individual voters in a lawsuit to block Utah from implementing a congressional redistricting map that constitutes an extreme partisan gerrymander and reinstating the...

Kansas’ 2022 congressional redistricting plan is a partisan and racial gerrymander that violates the rights of Kansan voters under the state constitution. CLC, along with co-counsel, represents 11 voters challenging the unconstitutional plan and demanding a fair map. 

North Dakota’s 2021 legislative map illegally dilutes Native Americans’ voting power in northern North Dakota. The Spirit Lake Nation, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and individual Native voters challenged the map under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Michiganders approved a constitutional amendment to create an IRC to redraw the state’s voting districts. After the commission drew new congressional maps following the 2020 census, a group of plaintiffs filed a lawsuit challenging them. CLC represents VNP, a nonpartisan, citizen-led organization...

CLC and co-counsel are suing to ensure that the voting strength of Latino voters is not unlawfully diluted in state legislative elections in Washington’s Yakima Valley and Pasco region, that this community can remain together and that Latino voters have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of...

Galveston County, Texas has a long history of diminishing the voting strength of Black and Latino voters in county-wide elections. To enable voters to decide elections’ outcomes, CLC is representing several Galveston County residents to challenge Galveston County’s ongoing discrimination in drawing...

CLC is representing Wisconsin voters and advocacy organizations in a legal challenge to ensure that Wisconsin’s current state assembly maps are struck down as unconstitutional and new maps are drawn for future elections.

CLC is challenging North Dakota’s onerous requirements to get North Dakota Voters First’s (NDVF) proposed constitutional amendment before voters. NDVF, CLC’s client, is seeking to implement impartial legislative redistricting and instant runoff voting in North Dakota.

CLC is challenging Arkansas’ onerous requirements to get a ballot initiative before voters. CLC’s client, Arkansas Voters First, is seeking to put an independent redistricting commission on the 2020 ballot.

CLC filed suit against the U.S. Census Bureau under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking access to documents about the Bureau’s efforts to use state driver-license records to help estimate how many adult U.S. citizens live on each census block in the nation.

CLC filed an amicus brief in a Supreme Court case concerning the mandatory partisan balancing of Delaware’s state courts. The court’s decision could have ramifications for partisan-balance requirements in a wide variety of other federal and state government entities, including those responsible for...

Michigan voters approved a constitutional amendment to create an independent redistricting commission to redraw the state’s voting districts. Two groups of plaintiffs sued to block its implementation. CLC serves as co-counsel for the Defendant Voters Not Politicians, a nonpartisan, citizen-led...