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On June 4, 2020, the Davidson County Chancery Court ordered the State of Tennessee to make absentee voting available to any Tennessee voter "who applies to vote by mail in order to avoid transmission or contraction of COVID-19." The State appealed the order, and the Tennessee Supreme Court assumed jurisdiction of the case. On July 9, 2020, the Campaign Legal Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Tennessee, Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, Memphis Central Labor Council, Memphis A. Philip Randolph Institute, The Equity Alliance, and Free Hearts, arguing that the Court should affirm the lower court's order, and ensure that every Tennessee voter is able to safely vote by mail this Fall.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a stay placed on a lower court's decision in the Florida voting rights restoration case, Jones v. DeSantis.
Complaint filed in the Southern District of New York challenging New York's signature match system.
On June 30, 2020, CLC filed suit against the FEC for failing to act on our administrative complaint demonstrating that Iowa Values, a nonprofit 501(c)(4) corporation, violated federal campaign finance law by failing to register as a political committee and publicly disclose its donors. CLC's administrative complaint had been pending with the FEC for over 190 days.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on July 6, 2020 that states have the authority to require presidential electors to vote for the candidate that wins the popular vote in their state.