The Supreme Court has a chance to finally declare that voters come first.

On November 29, 2018, we hosted “CLC 2018 Midterms Round-up: A New State of Democracy."

The Campaign Legal Center has conducted an initial analysis of the depth of partisan gerrymandering in the 2016 election, which was the third election held since the 2011 round of redistricting.

CLC examines the record of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Where does he stand on redistricting, voting rights, disclosure and campaign finance?

The decision comes one week after the Supreme Court send two other partisan gerrymandering cases back to district courts. We hope to get these cases back before the U.S. Supreme Court next term, in time for fair districts 2020. 

A federal three-judge panel in Richmond determined Tuesday that the Virginia General Assembly illegally sorted voters into 11 House of Delegate districts based on their race, in a statewide victory for voters.

Take a look at what made the list on CLC's Best and Worst Moments of 2015...

The current state of American elections is deeply troubling, and it’s the result of many failures in our government. But there are steps we can take now to ensure that democracy survives.

Last week, the Supreme Court sidestepped our challenge to the state of Wisconsin’s extreme partisan gerrymanders. Rather than ruling on the merits, the Justices sent the case, Gill v. Whitford, back to a lower court to further examine the plaintiff’s standing in the case and the serious harms that...

Voters are challenging, under the Voting Rights Act, a 2012 city council redistricting plan that secures a white majority on the city council, even though Hattiesburg has a majority black population. 

A new poll shows voters overwhelmingly favor allowing an independent commission to take over the redistricting process in Illinois. Of likely voters, 72 percent support the idea, while only 18 percent are opposed.

PBS airs a new documentary exploring non-partisan reform efforts underway to address partisan gerrymandering.

There has been a lot of consternation from a number of organizations over the last year about whether the California Citizens Redistricting Commission would be a diverse group.  Well, the final six were selected this week and hopefully the skeptics who have been critical of the Commission at every...

Pity the Poor Florida Taxpayers.  They are paying for both the legal defense of a ballot measure they passed in the last election as well as the lawsuit challenging it.  

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two cases that raise a question that the court has struggled with for decades: to what extent can legislatures consider race when drawing congressional districts, particularly when race is used as a proxy for political ends? 

Who sits on the court matters to the health of our democracy.

CLC’s case, Whitford v. Gill, is on the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and we hope that we can once and for all curb the practice of partisan gerrymandering. Before then, we’d like to debunk a number of myths about partisan gerrymandering with a dose of reality.