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Plaintiffs in Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina filed their final brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, just more than three weeks before the Court is slated to hear oral arguments in the partisan gerrymandering cases out of North Carolina and Maryland on March 26. Lower court victories for the plaintiffs in North Carolina mark the first time an entire state’s congressional plan has been struck down for being an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
On March 1, 2019, CLC's Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and chief of staff, submitted responses to questions for the record in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary's HR 1 hearing.
On February 28, 2019, the United States General Services Administration (GSA) settled with the Campaign Legal Center (CLC). CLC sued the GSA over its refusal to release travel information in response to CLC's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. GSA agreed to pay CLC $33,000 in attorney fees.
On February 20, 2019, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a statement for the record to the House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee on HR 1. The statement highlights HR 1's expansion of Office of Government Ethics OGE oversight duties, codification of the ethics pledge, and requirements related to the disclosure of certain dark money provisions.
CLC sent a letter to Mary Kendall, the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of the Interior, to request an investigation into several senior members of the Department of the Interior for violations of their ethics pledges.
The defendants filed an emergency application for stay at the Supreme Court in Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina.
CLC filed its motion urging the Supreme Court to expedite review of North Carolina's partisan gerrymander.
On March 12, 2018, Rucho et al. filed a jurisdictional statement asking the Court to hold this case pending the decisions of other gerrymandering cases, Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone.
Rucho et al. filed an appendix to their jurisdictional statement that asked the Court to hold this case pending the decisions of other gerrymandering cases, Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone.
Plaintiffs in North Carolina’s partisan gerrymandering challenge, League of Women Voters of North Carolina v. Rucho, filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court today asking the court to affirm the lower court’s ruling that found the entire state’s plan to be an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. CLC the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), and University of Chicago Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos represent plaintiffs in the case.
The Supreme Court granted North Carolina's emergency application to stay the decision by the lower court, which struck down its maps and ordered them to be redrawn.
On February 6, 2018, the Supreme Court denied CLC's motion for an expedited oral argument. Justice Ginsburg and Justice Sotomayor would grant the motion.
League of Women Voters of North Carolina: Supreme Court - Opposition to Stay Application.
The state of North Carolina's attorneys filed a brief opposing the motion to affirm at the U.S. Supreme Court on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina in an effort to defend their extreme partisan gerrymander.
CLC submitted a statement of support for HR 1, the For the People Act of 2019, to Chairperson Zoe Lofgren and Rep. Rodney Davis of the Committee on House Administration in the United States House of Representatives. HR 1 is a landmark bill designed to address the most pressing challenges to our democracy, which are the four issues CLC focuses on: the influence of money in politics, the erosion of ethical norms, threats to voting rights, and extreme partisan gerrymandering.
On February 8, 2019, the appellants in the Maryland partisan gerrymandering case submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.
CLC submitted a complaint to Inspector General Peggy Gustafson about Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over his failure to divest BankUnited stock, which he claimed to have divested on government forms that he signed under penalty of perjury.
On July 31, 2018, the Michigan State Supreme Court issued its opinion in the Michigan redistricting ballot initiative case. The Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's decision, allowing the redistricting measure to be voted on by Michigan's citizens in November, 2018.
This statement is by Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and chief of staff at CLC. It was delivered before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives on January 29, 2019.
The Supreme Court of the United States announced that it will hear oral arguments in the cases Rucho v. League of Women Voters and Benisek v. Lamone on Tuesday, March 26.