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Today, the Campaign Legal Center, filed a brief on behalf of plaintiffs in Fairley v. Hattiesburg, urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse the District Court’s erroneous and dangerous rejection of their Voting Rights Act challenge to the 2012 Hattiesburg City Council...
Yesterday, the Campaign Legal Center joined with the League of Women Voters, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Voting Rights Institute at Georgetown Law in filing an amici brief in Wittman v. Personhuballah, the fourth voting rights case the Supreme Court has taken this Term. The brief...
Local Governments are Now Seeking Thousands of Dollars in Attorneys’ Fees for What They Claim are “Frivolous” Voting Rights Challenges
WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing voters in Quitman County, Miss. against a legal action seeking more than $300K in attorneys’ fees...
New motion filed so voters can participate in 2016 presidential election
WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate its stay of a lower court’s ruling so that Texas’s harmful voter ID law will not prevent voters from casting a...
Grant Enables Lawyers, Advocates to Protect Voting Rights Nationwide
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today demonstrated its commitment to protecting voting rights by awarding a $1 million legacy grant to the Voting Rights Institute, a project of the American...
New Application Filed with High Court After 5th Circuit Refused to Rule
WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the U.S. Supreme Court to take immediate action in the Texas voter ID case so that voters will not be harmed by the law in the 2016 presidential election.
The...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously held in Evenwel v. Abbott that all people count for the purpose of drawing voting districts, not just eligible voters.
“Today’s Supreme Court decision is not only a victory for equality, it is a reaffirmation that our Constitution protects all...
The Voting Rights Institute today called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Daphne, Alabama’s City Council’s March 21 decision to reduce the number of polling places in the city from five to two. The city’s decision forces residents of one of the only districts with a sizable black...
State rightfully complied with the Voting Rights Act, and did not engage in a partisan gerrymander
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously held the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission did not engage in a partisan gerrymander, but instead drew its legislative map to comply...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today issued an order indicating it would be willing to take action to protect voters in Texas in time for the 2016 presidential election, if the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals fails to issue a ruling by July 20, 2016.“We’re very encouraged that the U.S...
Voting Rights Institute Asks the Department of Justice to Investigate
A Texas County sheriff appears to be intimidating Latino voters from exercising their federally protected right to vote, and today the Voting Rights Institute sent a letter calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to...
Brief filed in advance of full panel oral arguments on May 24
WASHINGTON – Texas’ voter ID law, SB 14, is the strictest voter ID law in the country, discriminates against minority voters, and disenfranchises an estimated 600,000 registered Texas voters, the Campaign Legal Center argues in a brief...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Campaign Legal Center and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice filed a complaint today on behalf of the League of Women Voters of North Carolina and numerous individual voters, arguing that North Carolina’s 2016 congressional redistricting plan violates the 1st and 14th...
The Campaign Legal Center, the Voting Rights Institute, and the law firm of Jenner & Block, alongside a star-studded team of civil rights lawyers, today filed a lawsuit in Alabama district court on behalf of U.S. citizens with past felony convictions who have been denied the right to vote due to...
Today, it’s important to remember that elections come and go, but CLC’s mission remains constant: We will continue to fight to improve our democracy and for the fundamental right of all Americans to participate in the political process. We will continue to vigorously work for changes in money in...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center released the following statement about President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate Jeff Sessions for Attorney General:
“Jeff Sessions has not demonstrated a commitment to fairness and equality under the law, a commitment that should be a minimum...
Smith Will Lead Groundbreaking Litigation to Advance Key Protections for Democracy
WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center is extremely pleased to welcome to its staff one of the nation’s leading attorneys, Paul M. Smith, as vice president of litigation and strategy. Mr. Smith brings more than...
Hebert tells of racial insensitivity by Sessions, exposes willful inaccuracies in his questionnaire, and explains the harm he would do to voting rights as AG
WASHINGTON – Today, Gerry Hebert, director of voting rights and redistricting program at the Campaign Legal Center has submitted written...
WASHINGTON — Today, civil rights leaders and voting rights experts provided reaction to the confirmation hearing of Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions and discussed his voting rights history, including Gerry Hebert, who testified against Sen. Sessions this week during the hearings. Read Hebert...
5th Circuit’s Decision That the Law is Discriminatory Will Stand
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear the case, Veasey v. Abbott, a challenge to Texas’s voter ID law, SB 14, the strictest photo voter ID law in the country. In refusing to grant certiorari, the Supreme Court...