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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...
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...
Litigators and lead plaintiff react to decision as case nears Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – A three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin today permanently blocked the state's redistricting plan that denies voters the ability to elect lawmakers.
This ruling by...
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...
Litigators and Plaintiff Confident Three-Judge Lower Court Ruling Will Stand
WASHINGTON – Wisconsin’s landmark partisan gerrymandering case is officially headed to the United States Supreme Court. Today, the State of Wisconsin formally appealed the three-judge panel’s decision in Whitford v. Gill...
DURHAM, N.C. – In a unanimous ruling, a three judge panel in North Carolina in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina denied a request by defendants to dismiss League of Women Voters of North Carolina v. Rucho. The case was initially filed in September 2016 claiming that...
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...
WASHINGTON – The legal team representing 12 Wisconsin voters in the case Gill v. Whitford filed a brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a lower court ruling striking down Wisconsin’s 2011 State Assembly map as unconstitutional. The brief responds to Wisconsin’s call to reverse the...
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's partisan gerrymander challenge to the state's maps will move forward
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court today, in Cooper v. Harris, affirmed a three-judge court’s decision finding that the North Carolina General Assembly used race as a predominant factor in drawing two districts in its 2011...
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...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today said they would hear oral arguments in a case that could curb partisan gerrymandering nationwide. Campaign Legal Center attorneys along with co-counsel represent 12 Wisconsin voters in the landmark case Gill v. Whitford, which challenges Wisconsin’s...
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...