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Passing the “For the People Act” to Create a More Accessible, Transparent and Responsive Government

Updated
September 20, 2021
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections
Redistricting
Ethics
Campaign Finance

Congress should pass and President Joe Biden should sign into law the comprehensive set of democracy reforms outlined in H.R. 1/S. 1 to advance the freedom to vote, strengthen ethics laws, end partisan gerrymandering and decrease the influence of wealthy special interests in our political system.

Miller v. Thurston (Arkansas Redistricting Initiative)

Updated
April 22, 2020
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

CLC is challenging Arkansas’ onerous requirements to get a ballot initiative before voters. CLC’s client, Arkansas Voters First, is seeking to put an independent redistricting commission on the 2020 ballot.

Baber v. Dunlap (Maine RCV)

Updated
November 28, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

CLC is fighting to protect the right of Maine citizens to use the electoral system they voted for by ballot initiative: ranked choice voting, which expands voter choice by allowing them to rank preferences for more than a single candidate.

Citizens Protecting Michigan's Constitution v. Secretary of State

Updated
July 3, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

CLC supported a successful grassroots effort to put a ballot initiative on the ballot in Michigan that created an independent redistricting commission.

CLC v. GSA

Updated
April 30, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Ethics

CLC is suing the GSA over its refusal to provide travel records responsive to CLC’s FOIA request.

Corman v. Torres

Updated
March 19, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

Corman v. Torres is a lawsuit in federal court that attempts to prevent Pennsylvania elections officials from implementing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision that struck down the state’s extreme partisan gerrymander.

Citizens United v. Schneiderman

Updated
June 6, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Campaign Finance

Citizens United v. Schneiderman is a challenge to a New York State law that requires registered charitable organizations to report their donors to the state attorney general. 

Lamone v. Benisek

Updated
February 12, 2019
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

Residents from the state of Maryland have brought a partisan gerrymandering challenge claiming their First Amendment rights were violated and they were discriminated against because of their political party affiliations when the state drastically redrew the sixth congressional district to unseat the...

League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Updated
March 26, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a challenge to the state’s 2011 congressional district map. The challengers argue that the map is an extreme partisan gerrymander, in violation of the Pennsylvania Constitution’s Free Expression and Association Clauses, as...

Fair Districts Colorado Ballot Initiatives in Support of Independent Redistricting Commissions

Updated
January 24, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

Fair Districts Colorado, a redistricting reform group, proposed a series of ballot initiatives that seek to establish independent redistricting commissions (IRCs) to draw Colorado’s state legislative and congressional district lines.

Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina

Updated
March 22, 2019
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

The Campaign Legal Center is part of a litigation team representing the League of Women Voters of North Carolina as well as numerous individual voters who have challenged the state’s congressional district maps as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

Gill v. Whitford

Updated
October 10, 2017
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

CLC, along with private co-counsel, represent 12 Wisconsin voters who have challenged the state’s Assembly district lines as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in Gill v. Whitford. Our case is the first purely partisan gerrymandering case to go to trial in 30 years and has the potential to...

Vesilind v. Virginia State Board of Elections

Updated
June 5, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

In 2015, a group of individual voters in Virginia challenged the 2011 Virginia General Assembly maps as violating the state constitution, arguing that the map drawers subordinated compactness and prioritized partisan criteria in order to achieve self-interested political objectives.

CLC v. Department of Justice

Updated
March 27, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Campaign Finance

CLC sought to compel DOJ to disclose records on how DOJ reached its conclusion to rescind administration policy to phase-out private prison contracts and whether GEO Group's contributions to a Trump super PAC played a role in the decision. The case has been settled.

Illinois Liberty PAC v. Madigan

Updated
March 22, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Campaign Finance

On July 24, 2012, Illinois Liberty PAC (ILP) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois challenging the constitutionality of Illinois’ state contribution limits...

Holmes v. FEC

Updated
November 28, 2017
Status
Closed
Issues
Campaign Finance

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) sets individual contribution limits to federal candidates at $2,700 per election — with primaries, general elections, runoffs and special elections each counted separately.

Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections

Updated
March 6, 2017
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

In the wake of the 2010 census, the Virginia General Assembly redrew the legislative districts for the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate of Virginia. The General Assembly purposely drew 12 districts to each have a set majority population of minorities — specifically, an African American...

Wright v. Sumter County Board of Elections and Registration

Updated
March 20, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting
Voting and Elections

Plaintiff Mathis Kearse Wright Jr. alleged two changes to the Sumter County Board of Education electoral violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because they diluted black voting power in the Georgia County’s school board elections.  The first change involved the creation of two at-large...

Wittman v. Personhuballah

Updated
June 22, 2016
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting
Voting and Elections

The case, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, is a challenge to the 2012 Congressional redistricting map passed by the Virginia Legislature. 

Evenwel v. Abbott

Updated
June 22, 2016
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting
Voting and Elections

The case challenges the State of Texas’ use of U.S. Census total population numbers for redistricting the state’s 31 state Senate seats as is commonly done in most states.  Appellants seek to have the court compel the State of Texas to utilize the number of voting age citizens or the number of...

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