A conversation on the intersection of the criminal justice system, wealth and voting. 

Join CLC on Thursday, July 25 for the call-in event “Too Poor to Vote: How the Criminal Justice System Has Created a New Era of Poll Taxes.”

The expedited hearing is a sign that the court understands the urgency of addressing Florida citizens’ rights to restore their vote. 

CLC files lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Florida law requiring citizens with previous convictions to pay a poll tax.

It is of the utmost importance that the census reflects all in the country. CLC applauds the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the 2020 Census.  

Residents of Washington D.C. have been denied a voice in Congress for 218 years. CLC recently endorsed legislation to make the District the 51st state. 

Nevada passed a bill which would restore the right to vote following a felony conviction. Voting is a fundamental right regardless of a previous conviction.

CLC and partners reached a final settlement agreement with the state of Texas, ending Secretary of State David Whitley’s flawed voter purge program, which targeted naturalized citizens and threatened the voting rights of tens of thousands of Texans.

The increase in the number of bills shows the breadth of the movement to disentangle the criminal justice system from the ballot box.

A new poll from Secure Democracy shows that in Tennessee, restoring voting rights to people with past convictions enjoys wide, bipartisan support.

CLC is seeking information related to a massive attempt by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to gather voter registration and individual voter information from state and county officials in North Carolina.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett is proposing new restrictions and penalties that are not right for the Volunteer State.

Florida voters overwhelming voted to restore voting rights to people with past felony convictions. Now, the state legislature is working to undue the will of more than 60 percent of the voters.

From the beginning of the Republic, this election system has been fundamentally inconsistent with the idea of fair representation upon which our country was founded.

Judge orders in favor of CLC, requiring government to release names of people on email chain regarding the formation of Pence-Kobach Commission.

CLC strongly supports HR 1 and the comprehensive effort to make our democracy more accessible, transparent and responsive to the citizens of our great nation.

CLC is asking the court to restrain the state from applying its voter ID law to Native American voters who live on or near reservations in North Dakota, and face unique barriers to obtaining qualifying ID.

A Texas federal judge orders Texas not to remove voters from registration without prior approval of the court. CLC represents the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and individual plaintiff Julie Hilberg in the case.

When I became a naturalized citizen in 2015 after moving to Texas, I never thought that today in 2019, my home state would put my voting rights in jeopardy.

Texas’s new voter purge program for newly naturalized citizens is discriminatory and an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote.