Court grants plaintiffs’ motion to shorten the time on the preliminary injunction motion and requires defendants disclose to counsel for plaintiffs a list of all voter applications previously purged or denied based on convictions for the past two years on or before July 21, 2017, or show cause on or before July 13, 2017, why they should not be required to do so.   

Judge Ramos found that there was sufficient evidence to sustain a conclusion that the Texas voter ID bill was passed with discriminatory purpose.

The Department of Justice, lead by Jeff Sessions, had their motion to dismiss accepted by the District Court in the Texas voter ID case.

CLC filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the FEC failed to act on five complaints calling for them to investigate donors who broke disclosure laws. The court rejected the FEC's motion to dismiss.

CLC filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the FEC failed to act on five complaints calling for them to investigate donors who broke disclosure laws. The court rejected the FEC's motion to dismiss.

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 in the upcoming presidential election.

The Campaign Legal Center represents plaintiffs Congressman Marc Veasey, LULAC and a group of Texas voters challenging Texas voter ID in Veasey v. Abbott. 

Declaration of rights; relief granted; John Doe investigation ordered closed. 

The Court reverses the District Court and remands for entry of judgment in favor of Appellants.