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Advocating for State Voter Registration Forms to Comply with the NVRA

Updated
May 22, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC sent letters to state officials across the country informing them that their voter registration forms were not up-to-date and did not accurately explain voter eligibility. 

CLC v. ICE (North Carolina FOIA)

Updated
April 11, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC filed suit against ICE for its failure to produce documents in response to CLC’s FOIA request related to its efforts to obtain individual voter registration and election data from state and county officials in North Carolina.

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.

Felony Voting Rights Restoration in Arizona

Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

In Arizona, the law regarding which people with past criminal convictions can and cannot vote has been confusing. Campaign Legal Center has worked to restore voting rights to people with past convictions in Arizona by providing direct rights restoration services, empowering community leaders to...

Texas LULAC, et al. v. Secretary of State David Whitley

Updated
February 4, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Texas unlawfully demanded tens of thousands of individuals provide additional proof of citizenship within 30 days or have their voter registration cancelled. CLC serves as counsel in a case challenging this discriminatory voter purge program.

Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission

Updated
April 20, 2016
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

Appellants brought this challenge to the 2012 Arizona redistricting plan alleging that the minor population deviations in the plan were motivated by pro-Democratic partisanship. The district court found that they were not. Instead, the district court held that the minor population deviations were...

CLC Holds Commerce Secretary Accountable for Financial Conflicts of Interest

Updated
November 28, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Ethics

Since Wilbur Ross was confirmed to his cabinet position as Commerce Secretary in February 2017, CLC has conducted vigorous oversight of his conduct, due to public concerns that his own financial interests conflict with the public interest.

Abbott v. Perez

Updated
April 20, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Texas engaged in unlawful redistricting, so the state should be liable when it reaffirms that unlawful decision by reenacting the same unlawful districts without change.  

MCRP v. Reagan

Updated
November 9, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC challenged Arizona’s system of rejecting mail-in ballots because election officials were not “satisfied” that the signature on the ballot matches voter registration signatures. The state was ordered to give voters a chance to fix it.

Cockrum v. Trump (DDC)

Updated
December 11, 2017
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting Rights

Three politically active Americans are suing the Donald Trump campaign and political consultant Roger Stone for violating their privacy and civil rights in the 2016 presidential election. They allege that the Trump campaign played a role in their private information being distributed worldwide after...

Lewis v. Alabama

Updated
January 24, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fun in filing a brief in support of the plaintiff, arguing that protections of the Voting Rights Act override state sovereignty in order to protect voters and hold state officials accountable for racially discriminatory election laws.

Veasey v. Abbott

Updated
April 27, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

In 2011, the Texas legislature enacted Senate Bill 14, the nation’s strict voter photo ID law that left more than a half a million eligible voters without access to the democratic process. After years of litigation, Texas changed its law.

LULAC v. Reagan

Updated
June 5, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC filed a lawsuit with co-counsel in LULAC v. Reagan, a complaint about Arizona's burdensome dual registration system for voters.

LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation

Updated
June 20, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia.

Enforcing the Hatch Act

Updated
June 14, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Ethics

CLC filed complaints urging enforcement of the Hatch Act and has called out violations in the media. 

Husted v. Randolph Institute

Updated
February 14, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Husted v. Randolph Institute is a challenge to Ohio’s unjustified purge of thousands of registered voters from its voter rolls. CLC's Paul Smith argued the case before the Supreme Court in January 2018 on the side of the voters.

Wright v. Sumter County Board of Elections and Registration

Updated
March 20, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

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...

Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Alabama

Updated
March 1, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Alabama is a legal challenge to Alabama’s restrictive voter photo ID law. In 2011, Alabama passed a law that required that citizens present one of a list of permissible photo IDs in order to vote. The undisputed evidence in this case was that black and Latino voters...

Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky

Updated
February 13, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky is a challenge to a Minnesota law that restricts the wearing of political apparel inside the polling place on Election Day. The law has been in place since 1893, helping to prevent voter intimidation and ensure orderly and safe elections. CLC’s argues that the...

Patino et al. v. City of Pasadena

Updated
October 3, 2017
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

This is a case about the preclearance of voting rights changes to a city in Texas.

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