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After CLC and partners filed a friend-of-the-court brief in this case, the Washington Supreme Court issued an opinion interpreting the Washington constitution's uniformity provisions in a way that underscores the constitutionality of the Washington Voting Rights Act.
Voting rights and redistricting litigation brought by CLC in response to the election challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Current as of May 2020.
More information about CLC's plan to protect the right to vote and redistricting during the COVID-19 pandemic
This action challenges Yakima County, Washington's at-large electoral system as a violation of the Washington Voting Rights Act.
This guide is for community members, activists, legislators, and the media—anyone who wants to understand why state VRAs are necessary, and how they should be written to ensure that people of color and local governments have the necessary tools to secure equal voting rights.
CLC drafted a friend-of-the-court brief in the Washington Supreme Court to underscore the constitutionality of the Washington Voting Rights Act under the state constitution's uniformity requirements. The brief was filed by partners ACLU of Washington and MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless on behalf of OneAmerica.
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.
On April 22, 2020, CLC and Arkansas Voters First filed a lawsuit against Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston to seek several protections for voters who wish to have their voice heard in the democratic process with a ballot initiative to reform redistricting in November 2020.
On April 15, 2020, a unanimous Sixth Circuit panel upheld the lower court’s decision that denied individual Republicans’ and the Michigan Republican Party’s attempt to delay and prevent the implementation of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.
CLC, along with private co-counsel, represent 12 Wisconsin voters who have challenged the state’s Assembly district lines as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in Gill v. Whitford. Our case is the first purely partisan gerrymandering case to go to trial in 30 years and has the potential to...
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...
A recent nationwide survey of likely 2020 general election voters commissioned by the Campaign Legal Center finds that voters overwhelmingly prefer congressional districts with no partisan bias, even if it meant less seats for their own party.
The survey also showed strong opposition to gerrymandering and broad, bipartisan support for the Supreme Court to set clear rules for when gerrymandering violates the Constitution.