Filter by Type
Filter by Issue Area
Filter by Document Type
Filter by Case/Action Status
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) joined a coalition of over 200 national, state, and local voting rights and good government groups to advocate for the rapid adoption of key policies to protect voting rights and ensure the safe and orderly conduct of the 2020 general election.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and a coalition of good government groups wrote a letter to the Wisconsin Governor and the Wisconsin state legislature asking them to consider several steps to increase opportunities for voting during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that all Wisconsin citizens are able to participate in the upcoming April 7 primary election.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) joined 150+ civil and voting rights organizations to urge Congress to include funding for election administrators in the Phase Three COVID-19 aid bill. These funds are critical for state and local election administrators to be able to implement policies to ensure that voters have access to the ballot in the November general election amidst the spread of COVID-19.
On March 11, the Campaign Legal Center and More Equitable Democracy submitted written testimony in support of the New York Voting Rights Act (S. 7528) because it would allow communities of color across the state of New York to participate equally in the election of their representatives. In particular it allows for the adoption of remedies like ranked choice voting and cumulative voting that can enfranchise integrated communities of color (while the federal Voting Rights Act still only offers protections to relatively segregated minority communities).
CLC provided testimony in support of SB 372, a bill that would require the state provide information and support to justice involved voters, including voters in jails.
Campaign Legal Center, Demos and the MacArthur Justice Center filed a brief saying that the district court correctly concluded that late-jailed voters are legally entitled to equal access to the ballot. The brief calls on the appeals court to affirm the lower court’s decision and apply that decision to all voters facing similar circumstances.
The 11th Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision in Florida’s case on fines and fees, upholding the preliminary injunction which prevents the state from preventing the plaintiffs from voting based solely on their genuine inability to pay legal financial obligations.
Campaign Legal Center is working to restore voting rights to people with past convictions in Alabama by providing direct rights restoration services, empowering community leaders to understand rights restoration laws in the state, and breaking down the false notion that a felony conviction always...
Campaign Legal Center’s Restore Your Vote campaign is working in Iowa to help people with felony convictions restore their voting rights, train community leaders on the rights restoration process, and break down the false notion that a felony conviction means you can never vote again.
CLC’s Restore Your Vote Campaign restores voting rights to people with past convictions by providing direct rights restoration services, empowering community leaders to understand rights restoration laws, and breaking down the false notion that a felony conviction always means you cannot vote.
A manual for helping people with felony convictions restore their voting rights in Tennessee. This manual first details how you can determine what a person’s path to rights restoration will look like: if they ever lost their right to vote and whether and how they can apply to have it restored. It also includes template versions of the paperwork a person may need to complete and contact information for some groups who can help further.
On February 3, 2020, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson filed a brief in support of the lower court’s decision denying the plaintiffs-appellants’ motion for preliminary injunction.
On February 3, 2020, VNP filed a brief in support of the lower court’s decision denying the plaintiffs-appellants’ motion for preliminary injunction.
In 2018, Florida voters restored the right to vote to individuals with felony convictions. The legislature then enacted a law conditioning rights restoration on payment of restitution, fines, and fees. CLC represents Floridians Bonnie Raysor, Diane Sherrill and Lee Hoffman in challenging the...
On January 15, 2020, CLC sent a letter to the Yakima County Commission notifying it that the current system for electing candidates to the County Commission violates the Washington Voting Rights Act by denying Latino voters an opportunity to elect candidates of their choice to the Commission.
On January 22, 2020 the Governor and the Secretary of State filed their reply brief in support of their appeal of the district court’s preliminary injunction.
Libertarian think tanks Cato Institute and R Street Institute, together with the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center, filed a friend of the court brief in support of voting rights. The groups argue that SB-7066’s requirement conditioning rights restoration on payment of LFOs is bad policy and violates the Fourteenth Amendment. The brief also argues that felony disenfranchisement is anti-democratic.
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones issued a ruling denying CLC and Fair Fight Action’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt Georgia’s voter purge.