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

Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights
Redistricting
Ethics
Campaign Finance

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

Daunt v. Benson

Updated
December 15, 2020
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

Michigan voters approved a constitutional amendment to create an independent redistricting commission to redraw the state’s voting districts. Two groups of plaintiffs sued to block its implementation. CLC serves as co-counsel for the Defendant Voters Not Politicians, a nonpartisan, citizen-led...

Holloway, et al. v. City of Virginia Beach

Updated
October 8, 2020
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

The city of Virginia Beach has used an at-large voting system to elect members to the City Council since 1966. The lawsuit asks the court to change the City’s election system to district-based or ranked choice voting, which would allow minorities to elect their candidates of choice to the City...

Promoting a Fair Census for All, Regardless of Citizenship Status

Updated
July 21, 2020
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

CLC urges the President to give the Census Bureau the time it needs to complete a fair and accurate count, and the use of total population rather than citizen population for reapportionment and redistricting. 

Sinner v. Jaeger

Updated
May 6, 2020
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

CLC is challenging North Dakota’s onerous requirements to get North Dakota Voters First’s (NDVF) proposed constitutional amendment before voters. NDVF, CLC’s client, is seeking to implement impartial legislative redistricting and instant runoff voting in North Dakota.

CLC v. Bureau of the Census (FOIA Delay suit)

Updated
March 9, 2020
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

CLC filed suit against the U.S. Census Bureau under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking access to documents about the Bureau’s efforts to use state driver-license records to help estimate how many adult U.S. citizens live on each census block in the nation.

Carney v. Adams

Updated
February 6, 2020
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

CLC filed an amicus brief in a Supreme Court case concerning the mandatory partisan balancing of Delaware’s state courts. The court’s decision could have ramifications for partisan-balance requirements in a wide variety of other federal and state government entities, including those responsible for...

Movement to Establish Citizen-Led Redistricting Commissions in the States

Updated
February 12, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

The issue of gerrymandering has received unprecedented attention recently. Independent redistricting commissions (IRCs) are state-based solutions that change the system of drawing electoral maps to a more open process that is reflective of citizen voices. This helps make politicians more accountable...

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 v. DOJ (Census FOIA)

Updated
July 30, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

CLC filed suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its failure to produce any documents related to its December 2017 request to the Department of Commerce to add a citizenship question in the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census.

Cooper v. Harris

Updated
May 22, 2017
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

Overturning the district court decision and upholding the North Carolina CD 1 and CD 12 as drawn would sanction state legislatures’ explicit use of race to achieve partisan benefit. 

Hooker v. Illinois State Board of Elections

Updated
July 28, 2016
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

CLC is representing seven civic groups in a friend-of-the-court brief asking the Supreme Court of Illinois to allow a constitutional amendment establishing an independent redistricting commission to be voted on by the people in November 2016.

Fairley v. Hattiesburg

Updated
April 4, 2016
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

Plaintiffs, Black residents of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, brought this Voting Rights Act challenge to the 2012 redistricting plan for Hattiesburg’s City Council. Due to shifts in population, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is now a majority-Black city.  Black voters comprise the largest voting group in...

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