CLC Statement on 5th Circuit’s Ruling in Texas Voter ID Case 

NEW ORLEANS, LA – A full panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in a 9 - 6 decision that Texas’ discriminatory voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and cannot be enforced as is in the upcoming presidential...

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...

CLC Letter Against Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) Leads to Possible Investigation by the House Ethics Committee

WASHINGTON – Late yesterday, the House Ethics Committee revealed that the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) found “substantial reason to believe” Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) may have...

Texas officials are violating U.S. Constitution by unlawfully discriminating against and intimidating eligible voters.

Today at 10am ET, the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on HR 1, For the People Act, a sweeping package of reforms that offers some of the most comprehensive advances our democracy has seen in decades.

CLC's new Race in Politics Catalog is a collection of political communications, campaign materials and comments that make racial appeals to voters. Compiled over the 2017-2018 election cycle, the Catalog gathers – in one place for the first time – many different types of race-based appeals from...

CLC’s new issue brief describes how PATA, which was re-introduced, would attend to pressing democracy issues like single-candidate super PACs and digital disclosure loopholes.

Americans are entitled to a democracy that works for them, and having HR1 passed as the first order of business in the new Congress.

Secretary Ross’s vague and inconsistent filings raise questions about whether the financial interests of a wealthy cabinet secretary influenced administration policies affecting American companies.

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.

The Maricopa County Superior Court, upon agreement of the parties, ordered all county recorders statewide to permit voters to “cure” their signature mismatch issue by the deadline to fix conditional provisional ballots next week: Wednesday, November 15.

Pollworkers are not handwriting experts, and whether someone’s ballot counts should not be determined on the whim of an official who mistakenly concludes that a voter’s signature is not genuine.

This is a dangerous and authoritarian step, and threatens the rule of law. The President is seeking to control or influence an investigation into activities of his presidential campaign and some of its top officials.

Under Ohio's system, eligible voters who are detained pretrial by the state are being unconstitutionally denied their fundamental right to vote. CLC filed an emergency lawsuit to block this practice of disenfranchisement.

Georgia is now ordered to allow voters who have been flagged and placed in pending status due to citizenship to vote a regular ballot in the November 2016 election.

The US District Judge denied the request for relief for Native Americans that we were seeking from the North Dakota voter identification law.

Maricopa County, AZ Recorder Adrian Fontes announced that he has agreed to adopt and implement a new early-ballot signature policy.

More than 500 affected Nevada voters have been added to the rolls for November elections as a result of this effort

LAS VEGAS, NV – Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has come to an agreement with Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s office and the Clark County registrar after the county was...

We filed an emergency motion in Georgia federal district court to make sure that persons inaccurately flagged as non-citizens under Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s flawed “exact match’ system can vote. Kemp’s “exact match” voter registration process relies on outdated citizenship data which...

Georgia’s ‘exact match’ protocol has resulted in the cancellation or rejection of tens of thousands of voter registration applications in the past. The reintroduction of this practice, which is known to be discriminatory and error-ridden, is appalling.