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U.S. Census Bureau Should Change How it Counts Incarcerated Individuals in the 2020 Census

Date
July 28, 2016
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

The Campaign Legal Center and the Voting Rights Institute Submit Comments to the Bureau to Protect Voting Power of Minority Communities

WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center filed comments urging the U.S. Census Bureau to change its proposed rule on how it plans to count incarcerated prisoners...

Make Democracy Count: The Harmful Impact of Partisan Gerrymandering on Voters and Our Democracy

Date
August 10, 2016
Case
Gill v. Whitford
Issues
Redistricting

CLC Releases New Report Proposing a Key Solution for Partisan Gerrymandering and Achieving Fair Elections 

WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center, which is litigating the landmark case Whitford v. Gill to end partisan gerrymandering, today released a report, Make Democracy Count: Ending Partisan...

Supreme Court Should Reject New Standard for Racial Gerrymandering Cases

Date
September 14, 2016
Case
Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections
Issues
Redistricting

CLC Files Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Virginia racial gerrymandering case

The Campaign Legal Center today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections, a case of critical importance for the future of racial...

Baber v. Dunlap (Maine RCV)

Updated
November 28, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

CLC is fighting to protect the right of Maine citizens to use the electoral system they voted for by ballot initiative: ranked choice voting, which expands voter choice by allowing them to rank preferences for more than a single candidate.

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question

Date
January 15, 2019
Case
CLC v. DOJ (Census FOIA)
Promoting a Fair Census for All, Regardless of Citizenship Status
Issues
Redistricting
While the fight is not over, this decision is a sigh of relief for people in the country that could have been adversely affected by the lack of representation caused by being undercounted in the Census.

CLC v. DOJ (Census FOIA)

Updated
July 30, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

CLC filed suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its failure to produce any documents related to its December 2017 request to the Department of Commerce to add a citizenship question in the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census.

U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear North Carolina and Maryland Partisan Gerrymandering Challenges

Date
January 4, 2019
Case
Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina
Lamone v. Benisek
Issues
Redistricting
The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear arguments in a challenge to North Carolina’s 2016 congressional map, which is one of the most egregious partisan gerrymanders in American history. It will also hear the Maryland challenge, in which Democrats discriminated against Republicans for their...

Landmark Democracy Bill HR 1 Would Protect Every Voter’s Voice in the Political Process and Restore Trust in Government

Date
January 4, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
Redistricting
Voting Rights
Ethics
Americans are entitled to a democracy that works for them, and having HR1 passed as the first order of business in the new Congress.

Federal Court Upholds Election System in Maine

Date
December 13, 2018
Case
Baber v. Dunlap (Maine RCV)
Issues
Redistricting
Court ruling echoes CLC argument: ranked choice voting encourages First Amendment expression without discriminating against any voter based on viewpoint or other criteria.

Election Results Send Clear Message that Americans Want Democracy Reform

Date
November 7, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance
Ethics
Voting Rights
Redistricting
In the 2018 midterms, Americans overwhelmingly voted to support measures to end extreme partisan gerrymandering, improve the way we fund elections to give every day voters a voice in the political process, expand voting access and move toward a more ethical and accountable government.

Supermajority of Americans Want Supreme Court to Limit Partisan Gerrymandering

Date
September 11, 2017
Case
Gill v. Whitford
Issues
Redistricting

Bipartisan poll shows overwhelming support from Republicans, Independents and Democrats

In the first-ever bipartisan survey on partisan gerrymandering and the Supreme Court, an overwhelming majority (71 to 15 percent) of Americans want the Supreme Court to place limits on lawmakers’ ability to...

Amended Whitford Complaint Highlights Harm Caused by Wisconsin’s Partisan Gerrymander to 40 Plaintiffs Across 34 Districts

Date
September 14, 2018
Case
Gill v. Whitford
Issues
Redistricting
CLC has added 28 new plaintiffs to the Wisconsin partisan gerrymander challenge, and submitted evidence proving that the state’s redistricting plan inflicted district-specific harm on plaintiffs by diluting their votes, as well as infringing all 40 plaintiffs’ associational rights.

Plaintiffs Victory in Partisan Gerrymandering Case Shifts Focus Back to Supreme Court

Date
August 27, 2018
Case
Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina
Issues
Redistricting
The fight for fair maps in North Carolina continues as a North Carolina Court ruled that the state’s maps are an unconstitutional gerrymander for the second time.

Fair Districts Colorado Ballot Initiatives in Support of Independent Redistricting Commissions

Updated
January 24, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

Fair Districts Colorado, a redistricting reform group, proposed a series of ballot initiatives that seek to establish independent redistricting commissions (IRCs) to draw Colorado’s state legislative and congressional district lines.

Plaintiffs Victory in Partisan Gerrymandering Case Shifts Focus Back to Supreme Court

Case
Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina
Issues
Redistricting
The Supreme Court could hear North Carolina case in the 2018-19 term in time for new maps in 2020

Tenth Circuit Urged to Deny Albuquerque’s Attempt to Fine Litigants and Lawyers for Seeking to Vindicate Voting Rights

Date
February 18, 2015
Case
Baca v. Berry
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

Yesterday in Baca v. Berry, Campaign Legal Center attorneys, along with attorneys at Jenner & Block, filed a brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit responding to the City of Albuquerque’s efforts to obtain financial sanctions against four of its own citizens and their...

Law Professors Urge Supreme Court to Accept Case and Overturn North Carolina Redistricting Decision

Date
February 23, 2015
Case
Dickson v. Rucho
Issues
Redistricting

On February 17, 2015, in Dickson v. Rucho, Campaign Legal Center Executive Director J. Gerald Hebert joined with a dozen other nationally recognized election law professors in a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to accept a case and overturn a state supreme court ruling upholding North Carolina’s...

Florida’s 2012 Congressional Redistricting Ruled Unconstitutional by Florida Circuit Court

Date
July 9, 2014
Issues
Redistricting

Earlier today, Judge Terry P. Lewis of the Second Judicial Circuit Court of Florida found that the Florida Legislature violated the state constitution when it redrew its congressional boundaries. Voters in Florida overwhelmingly supported amending the Florida Constitution in 2012 to bar the...

New Litigation Summary from CLC Describes Continuing Flood of Challenges to Campaign Finance Laws & Growing List of Voting Rights Cases

Date
September 12, 2013
Issues
Campaign Finance
Redistricting
Voting Rights

Ideological and interest group opponents of campaign finance regulation continue to flood the courts with cases challenging campaign finance laws at the federal, state and municipal levels.  McCutcheon v. FEC, a challenge to the federal aggregate contribution limits, will be argued before the U.S...

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