Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted testimony in support of amending the Washington Voting Rights Act (WVRA) to include a preclearance system. CLC’s testimony focused on the benefits of preclearing election law changes to avoid costly litigation and prevent discriminatory voting practices from coming into effect, as well as the ease of administering a preclearance system.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a friend of the court brief on behalf several former Department of Justice attorneys in Arkansas NAACP v. State of Arkansas. In Arkansas NAACP v. State of Arkansas, organizations appealed a federal district court’s decision that private parties are not allowed to file lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. 

On March 30, 2022, the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Tennessee denied in large part Tennessee's motion to dismiss the Tennessee NAACP's challenge to the state's failed voting rights restoration process. The claims under the U.S. Constitution will proceed, as well as a claim that Tennessee has violated the National Voter Registration Act.

On March 31, LUCHA, LULAC, Arizona Students’ Association and ADRC Action filed suit against Arizona Secretary of State Hobbs challenging H.B. 2492, an extreme anti-voter law that imposes documentary proof of residence and citizenship requirements on voter registration, discriminates against naturalized U.S. citizens and strips certain voters of the right to vote in presidential elections and by mail.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) provided written testimony to the Committee on House Administration ahead of a Subcommittee on Elections hearing on Texas voting practices. CLC and our partners recently took Texas to court over its discriminatory, illegal voter purge that disproportionately targeted naturalized U.S. citizens who registered to vote after obtaining their citizenship, and the litigation ultimately resulted in a settlement agreement ending the state’s flawed voter purge program.

CLC submitted testimony in opposition to a new omnibus bill pending in the Georgia state legislature – HB 1464. The current version of the bill includes provisions allowing the Georgia Bureau of Investigations to intrude into the elections process, requiring any donation or gift (including food and water to voters) to be approved and distributed solely by the State Elections Board, and decreasing the number of voting machines at each precinct.

CLC with its partners on the DC Restore the Vote Coalition submitted testimony at the DC City Council’s oversight hearing for the DC Board of Elections (DC BOE). The testimony urges the DC BOE to make DC’s voter registration form accessible to eligible DC residents who are incarcerated in jails and the federal Bureau of Prisons and to adopt administrative practices to ensure ballot access for incarcerated voters.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU Texas), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and DĒMOS filed a motion for preliminary injunction against Texas Secretary of State John B. Scott’s refusal to produce records responsive to their previous record requests made pursuant to the National Voter Registration Act. The requested records pertain to a state program that threatens to remove naturalized citizens from the voter rolls.