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Campaign Legal Center, et al., v. Scott: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas - Mandatory Injunction and Final Judgment

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Date
August 2, 2022
Case
CLC et al v. Scott

On Aug. 2, 2022, a federal district court in Texas ordered Texas Secretary of State John B. Scott to produce records responsive to National Voter Registration Act requests made by 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. The requested records pertain to a state program that threatens to remove naturalized citizens from the voter rolls.

CLC et al v. Scott: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas Austin Division - Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law

Document
Date
August 2, 2022
Case
CLC et al v. Scott

On Aug. 2, 2022, a federal district court in Texas ordered Texas Secretary of State John B. Scott to produce records responsive to National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) requests made by 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. The requested records pertain to a state program that threatens to remove naturalized citizens from the voter rolls.

CLC Urges Immediate Passage of Reforms to the Electoral Count Act

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Date
July 20, 2022

On July 20, 2022, Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Joe Manchin (D-WV) and 14 bipartisan cosponsors introduced the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 (ECRA) (S. 4573), and this vital legislation would update the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) and help prevent attempts to sabotage the results of presidential elections. In this position paper, Campaign Legal Center urges Congress to modernize the ECA without further delay.

LUCHA v. Hobbs: U.S. District Court for Arizona – Plaintiffs’ Amended Complaint

Document
Date
July 18, 2022
Case
LUCHA v. Hobbs

On July 18, the plaintiffs amended their complaint against Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs challenging H.B. 2492 and H.B. 2243, an extreme anti-voter law that imposes documentary proof of residence and citizenship requirements on voter registration, discriminates against naturalized U.S. citizens, Native Americans, Latinos and members of other racial and language minority communities, and strips certain voters of the right to vote in presidential elections and by mail. The amended complaint adds claims under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and Voting Rights Act, includes new plaintiffs, the San Carlos Apache Tribe, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona and Arizona Coalition for Change, and adds a challenge to H.B. 2243.

 

LUCHA v. Hobbs: NVRA Notice Letter

Document
Date
April 6, 2022
Case
LUCHA v. Hobbs

On April 6, Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Arizona Students’ Association and ADRC Action sent Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs an official letter giving her notice of the violations of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) caused by H.B. 2492. This letter is a prerequisite to suing under the NVRA.

 

Conforti v Hanlon: United States District Court for the District of New Jersey – Order Denying Motion to Dismiss

Document
Date
June 1, 2022
Case
Conforti v Hanlon

The federal district court denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss, allowing this case challenging New Jersey’s primary ballot design rules to proceed to discovery. Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a brief with the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice on behalf of the League of Women Voters and Salvation and Justice highlighting the harms that these flawed ballot design rules impose on voters, and particularly voters of color.

CLC Testimony in Support of WVRA Amendments

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Date
February 25, 2022

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.

Expert Statement of Trevor Potter – U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

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Date
April 1, 2022

On April 1, 2022, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) founder and president Trevor Potter submitted an expert statement to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol.

Arkansas NAACP v. Arkansas Amicus Brief

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Date
April 25, 2022

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. 

TN NAACP v. Lee: U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Tennessee - Order Denying State's Motion to Dismiss

Document
Date
March 30, 2022
Case
TN NAACP v. Lee

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.

LUCHA v. Hobbs: U.S. District Court for Arizona – Plaintiffs’ Complaint

Document
Date
March 31, 2022
Case
LUCHA v. Hobbs
Combatting State-Level Bills Restricting The Freedom To Vote

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.

CLC Testimony to Congress on Protecting the Freedom to Vote in Texas

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Date
March 17, 2022
Case
CLC et al v. Scott

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 Testimony in Opposition to Georgia Bill HB 1464

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Date
March 21, 2022

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.

Letter Urging DC Board of Elections to Make Registration and Voting Accessible to Eligible Voters in Bureau of Prisons

Document
Date
February 8, 2022
Case
Assisting Voters in Jail

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.

CLC v. Scott: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas Austin Division – Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction and to Consolidate

Document
Date
March 8, 2022
Case
CLC et al v. Scott

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.

VoteAmerica v. Schwab: United States District Court for the District of Kansas - Permanent Injunction of Kansas's Ban on Out-of-State Distribution of Absentee

Document
Date
February 25, 2022
Case
VoteAmerica v. Schwab (Kansas)

After Campaign Legal Center (CLC) won a preliminary injunction on behalf of the plaintiffs, the state of Kansas has agreed to a permanent injunction of its law prohibiting distribution of absentee ballot applications by out-of-state persons or entities.

Letter from Elections Division on Voting Rights of Tennesseans with Out-of-State Convictions

Document
Date
November 22, 2019
Case
Falls v. Goins (TN Out of State Convictions)

In this November 2019 letter, the Tennessee Elections Division stated that Tennesseans with convictions from other states may register to vote if they have had their rights of citizenship restored by the state of conviction. The Elections Division later reversed their position, denying Ernest Falls' voter registration and prompting CLC's lawsuit.

Falls v. Goins: Tennessee Supreme Court - Merits Brief at Tennessee Supreme Court

Document
Date
February 23, 2022
Case
Falls v. Goins (TN Out of State Convictions)

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a brief on the merits at the Tennessee Supreme Court on behalf of Ernest Falls, who has been denied the right to vote for failure to pay outstanding court costs from a 1986 felony conviction in Virginia, but Tennessee law does not authorize the Secretary of State to deny the right to vote to individuals with out-of-state convictions if they have had their full rights of citizenship restored in that other state, which Mr. Falls has. He seeks to appeal the decision of the Tennessee Court of Appeals at Nashville.

Falls v. Goins: Tennessee Supreme Court - Application to Appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court

Document
Date
February 22, 2022
Case
Falls v. Goins (TN Out of State Convictions)

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed an application to appeal at the Tennessee Supreme Court on behalf of Ernest Falls, who has been denied the right to vote for failure to pay outstanding court costs from a 1986 felony conviction in Virginia, but Tennessee law does not authorize the Secretary of State to deny the right to vote to individuals with out-of-state convictions if they have had their full rights of citizenship restored in that other state, which Mr. Falls has. He seeks to appeal the decision of the Tennessee Court of Appeals at Nashville.

Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Merrill: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama Southern Division - Complaint

Document
Date
February 22, 2022
Case
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Merrill

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint on behalf of Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM) against the Alabama Secretary of State for failure to comply with the National Voter Registration Act in rejecting GBM’s request for voter registration and voter purge records.

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