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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a January 15 opinion by U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman finding that Secretary Ross lied about his reasons for adding the citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
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...
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.
On Thursday, June 27, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided 5-4 that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.
Litigators and Lead Plaintiff React to Decision
WASHINGTON – A three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin today struck down Wisconsin’s state assembly district map, which is one of the most extreme partisan gerrymanders in the United States in the post...
On February 1, 2018, CLC submitted a FOIA request to the U.S. Census Bureau to obtain information on the 2020 Census citizenship question.
CLC filed an amended complaint on behalf of individuals against the City of Virginia Beach. Virginia Beach City Council, the City Manager and the Director of Elections/General Registrar challenging the at-large election system used to elect members of the City Council.
CLC filed written testimony to the New Hampshire Senate Committee on Election Law and Municipal Affairs in support of House Bill 706, a bill establishing an independent redistricting commission (“IRC”) in New Hampshire. CLC argues that the bill is constitutional under federal and New Hampshire law, the transparency requirements are good public policy, and the commission is unlikely to produce gerrymandered districts because the commission must reach consensus to approve a map.