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We Won’t Be Distracted By Shiny Objects: Congressional Medals Are No Substitute for Restoring the Voting Rights Act

February 23, 2016
Case
Shelby County, AL v. Holder
Issues
Voting Rights

We cannot accept Congressional Gold Medals as a substitute for meaningful voting protections. 

CLC Spotlight: NY Times Editorial Board Says Racist Voting Laws are a “Stain on the Idea of Democracy”

October 5, 2016
Case
Thompson v. Alabama
Issues
Voting Rights

Today’s New York Times highlights how the same laws that were central to Jim Crow are still barring nearly 6 million Americans from voting in the 2016 election.

A Guide to Exercising Your Right to Vote on Election Day

November 1, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

This November 8, millions of voters across the country will exercise their fundamental right to vote. Campaigns and elections can be messy affairs, but our democracy has stood the test of time. We hope you'll exercise your right to vote, and this guide should help make sure you are prepared for a...

Seizing on “Voter Fraud” Claims, Lawmakers Craft New Voting Restrictions Despite Court Rulings

April 20, 2017
Issues
Voting Rights

Participation in Tuesday’s Elections in Alabama a ‘Beautiful Experience’ for First-Time Voter

August 18, 2017
Issues
Voting Rights

Willie G., a 37-year resident of Birmingham, Alabama, voted for the first time this Tuesday and called it a beautiful experience and an opportunity to “feel like somebody.” Willie, age 69, works as a roofer and painter, and served a 10-year sentence in the state penitentiary from 1981-1991 on...

CLC President Trevor Potter on 60 Minutes: Hush Money to Stormy Daniels Creates “Enormous” Legal Problems for Trump’s Campaign and Lawyer

March 26, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance
Voting Rights

Viewers learned that the heart of the Stormy Daniels story is, in fact, an apparent violation of campaign finance law. Candidates and political operatives from both parties increasingly push the legal envelope with the expectation that the FEC won’t penalize them.

Participation in Tuesday’s Elections in Alabama a ‘Beautiful Experience’ for First-Time Voter

June 14, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights

Willie G., a 37-year resident of Birmingham, Alabama, voted for the first time this Tuesday and called it a beautiful experience and an opportunity to “feel like somebody.”

Citizens barred from the polls: The negative impact of strict photo voter ID in Texas

June 15, 2018
Case
Veasey v. Abbott
Issues
Voting Rights

Because of the burdensome requirements of strict photo voter ID in Texas, the law disproportionately disenfranchises minority voters, particularly African Americans and Latinos. Here are some of their stories.

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Ohio to Purge its Citizens From the Rolls

June 11, 2018
Case
Husted v. Randolph Institute
Issues
Voting Rights

In a 5-4 ruling in Husted v. APRI, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Ohio voter purge practice that removes infrequent voters from the registration rolls.

Progress in the Courts Protected Voters from Texas’s Original Discriminatory Voter ID Law

April 27, 2018
Case
Veasey v. Abbott
Issues
Voting Rights

On April 27, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released a decision on the longstanding legal challenge to Texas’s voter ID law, Veasey v. Abbott.

The Kid Gloves Are Off: Florida Early Voting Case Could Provide New Pathway to Tackling Barriers to Student Voting

August 3, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights

On July 24, 2018, students won a major victory for themselves in securing equal access to the right to vote.

Cockrum v. Trump (DDC)

Updated
December 11, 2017
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting Rights

Three politically active Americans are suing the Donald Trump campaign and political consultant Roger Stone for violating their privacy and civil rights in the 2016 presidential election. They allege that the Trump campaign played a role in their private information being distributed worldwide after...

Lewis v. Alabama

Updated
January 24, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fun in filing a brief in support of the plaintiff, arguing that protections of the Voting Rights Act override state sovereignty in order to protect voters and hold state officials accountable for racially discriminatory election laws.

Veasey v. Abbott

Updated
April 27, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

In 2011, the Texas legislature enacted Senate Bill 14, the nation’s strict voter photo ID law that left more than a half a million eligible voters without access to the democratic process. After years of litigation, Texas changed its law.

LULAC v. Reagan

Updated
June 5, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC filed a lawsuit with co-counsel in LULAC v. Reagan, a complaint about Arizona's burdensome dual registration system for voters.

LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation

Updated
June 20, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia.

Husted v. Randolph Institute

Updated
February 14, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Husted v. Randolph Institute is a challenge to Ohio’s unjustified purge of thousands of registered voters from its voter rolls. CLC's Paul Smith argued the case before the Supreme Court in January 2018 on the side of the voters.

Wright v. Sumter County Board of Elections and Registration

Updated
March 20, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

Plaintiff Mathis Kearse Wright Jr. alleged two changes to the Sumter County Board of Education electoral violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because they diluted black voting power in the Georgia County’s school board elections.  The first change involved the creation of two at-large...

Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Alabama

Updated
March 1, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Alabama is a legal challenge to Alabama’s restrictive voter photo ID law. In 2011, Alabama passed a law that required that citizens present one of a list of permissible photo IDs in order to vote. The undisputed evidence in this case was that black and Latino voters...

Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky

Updated
February 13, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky is a challenge to a Minnesota law that restricts the wearing of political apparel inside the polling place on Election Day. The law has been in place since 1893, helping to prevent voter intimidation and ensure orderly and safe elections. CLC’s argues that the...

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