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Trump Administration Lays Groundwork to Silence Minorities, Elderly, Youth in Future ElectionsWASHINGTON – This morning, President Donald Trump called for a “major investigation” into potential voter fraud, alleging that millions of undocumented immigrants voted in the 2016 election, and that...
Today, Gerry Hebert, director of voting rights and redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center, released the following statement on the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as attorney general of the United States: “The U.S. Senate has failed us today,” said Gerry Hebert, director of voting rights and...
WASHINGTON – Today, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) for documents containing communications to and from Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch during his tenure at the Department of Justice when several attorneys were improperly fired due to...
CLC Urges Court to Proceed with Hearing on SB 14 as scheduled on February 28
WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center filed a motion today with our private plaintiffs, opposing Texas’ and the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) attempt to delay a court hearing on the state’s discriminatory voter ID...
WASHINGTON - Today, the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas held, once again, that the state’s strict voter ID law, enacted in 2011, was written with racially discriminatory intent.“Today’s ruling is a crucial step in the six-year journey towards justice for Texas voters since this...
Claims of widespread voter fraud have been debunked by elected officials from both parties
WASHINGTON – Today, media reports indicate President Trump will sign an executive order establishing a commission to review alleged voter fraud and vote suppression in the American election system.
“If...
Decision Leaves in Place Key Fourth Circuit Court Decision
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the North Carolina v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP case, leaving in place the circuit court’s decision that North Carolina’s omnibus voter suppression law intentionally...
Alabama legislature moves in the right direction by passing bill to set a clear legal standard; the law still leaves many citizens without recourse
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the Alabama Legislature passed HB 282, a bill that defines what crimes involve “moral turpitude” for the purposes of...
CLC joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) in filing an amicus brief in the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the case Lewis v. Alabama to vindicate the rights of citizens to sue under the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
“Citizens have the right to challenge laws that...
CLC takes legal action following Secretary of State Merrill’s refusal to implement the law
Campaign Legal Center today asked a federal court to immediately order the state of Alabama to implement the Felony Voter Disqualification Act (HB 282) (signed May 25, 2017) by educating and advising...
Trevor Potter, president of Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and a former Republican chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), released the following statement on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which has its first meeting scheduled today:
“Our elections face...
Texas's Modified Version of the Original Law, SB 5, is Just as Discriminatory as the Original SB 14, Court Says
A federal court in Texas today permanently blocked Texas latest version of its voter photo ID law, SB 5. Campaign Legal Center represents Texas voters in its challenge to the law in...
Election Law Practicum at Georgetown University Law Center Will Aid Campaign Legal Center Litigation
Beginning today, Georgetown University law students will have the opportunity to undertake hands-on legal work in pending election law and voting rights cases through a semester-long practicum course for credit. The...
Today, Campaign Legal Center Executive Director J. Gerald Hebert began teaching a semester-long voting rights class at New York Law School (NYLS). Through the study of constitutional amendments, Supreme Court jurisprudence and legislative action, including the Voting Rights Act, the course will...
System has disenfranchised at least 26,000 eligible voters in Maricopa County alone
WASHINGTON – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and private co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit challenging Arizona’s overly burdensome and confusing voter...
Today, attorneys who had represented Latino voters in an Albuquerque voting rights case, Baca v. Berry, filed their opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, challenging a District Court order imposing sanctions on them for unduly prolonging court proceedings after they had...
Today, attorneys at the Campaign Legal Center, who serve as co-counsel for plaintiffs Congressman Marc Veasey and LULAC, filed a motion to expedite a pending appeal in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Veasey v. Perry—the challenge to Texas’ overly restrictive photo ID law (SB 14).
“This...
Alabama faces another election on December 12, while the state continues to deny as many as a quarter of a million Alabamians their right to vote
WASHINGTON – Many people with past felony convictions won’t be able to vote in Alabama’s special election on December 12 due to the state’s...
Trevor Potter, president of CLC, and a former Republican chairman of the Federal Election Commission, released the following statement about Cockrum v. Trump:
“The hack and release of sensitive personal information of donors and campaign staff is potentially damaging to all those who seek to be...