CLC launched "DemocracyU: A Toolkit for Action in Your Community" to help policymakers and concerned citizens learn more about solutions to the biggest threats to our democracy.

Michigan voters have completely flipped the system of gerrymandering on its head, giving power back to regular people, so it was bound to upset the politicians in power.

Meet the plaintiffs in the landmark partisan gerrymandering case, Gill v. Whitford.

The legislature’s conduct in redrawing the maps has led to questions about the fairness of the maps and the map-drawing process.

CLC’s founder and president Trevor Potter delivered the Constitution Day lecture at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana.

Governor Sununu’s veto will deprive his constituents of the transparency and accountability provisions found in HB 706 for the redistricting process.

On Tuesday, Maine became the first state to adopt ranked choice voting for state and federal elections. This is a big deal.

CLC is proud to join Voters Not Politicians in the fight to protect Michigan’s democratically-enacted Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.

CLC has received responsive documents from the Department of Justice containing a series of email conversations about the request to add a controversial citizenship question to the census between John Gore, the acting head of DOJ’s civil rights division, and Arthur Gary, General Counsel in the...

The Supreme Court ruled that courts may not intervene to block partisan elections. While this is a disappointing decision, the fight is not over. 

Residents of Washington D.C. have been denied a voice in Congress for 218 years. CLC recently endorsed legislation to make the District the 51st state. 

On April 23, the United States Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’s decision to ask every household in the country about the citizenship status of its members during the 2020 Census.

Voters nationwide are ready for a ruling that will put the voters and not lawmakers first.

CLC strongly supports HR 1 and the comprehensive effort to make our democracy more accessible, transparent and responsive to the citizens of our great nation.

In our democracy, every voice should be heard, and every vote should count equally. But in North Carolina and other states across the country, politicians are choosing their voters instead of the other way around.

The provisions in HR 1 independently and collectively advance the right of every American citizen to a government that is responsible and accountable to voters.

CLC released a poll that finds voters overwhelmingly prefer congressional districts with no partisan bias, even if it means fewer seats for their own party.

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will hear arguments in a challenge to North Carolina’s 2016 congressional map.

Paul Smith, CLC, vice president, litigation & strategy, was on Facebook Live discussing what’s at stake in our partisan gerrymandering case. 

On January 3, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced HR 1, a bill to make vital, high-priority improvements to our government and election systems