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Brnovich v. DNC

Updated
January 19, 2021
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections

CLC is advocating to fortify the role of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in combatting laws and policies that result in racially discriminatory impacts on voters of color.

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

Updated
September 20, 2021
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections
Redistricting
Ethics
Campaign Finance

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

Securing Safe Voting Options on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation (AZ)

Updated
September 25, 2020
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections

Members of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Arizona lack access to safe early voting options. Yaqui voters must now travel 2-3 hours roundtrip by public bus just to vote at the nearest early voting site. CLC is assisting the Tribe to secure a safe early voting site before this fall's election.

Common Cause Rhode Island v. Gorbea

Updated
July 23, 2020
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections

CLC is suing to challenge Rhode Island’s witness/notary requirement for voting by mail, which is a heavy burden on voters that fear contracting COVID-19 during 2020 elections.

A. Phillip Randolph Institute v. Hargett

Updated
April 12, 2021
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections

CLC is challenging Tennessee’s strict limitations on who can vote by mail, its criminal penalties to deter people from assisting voters to obtain mail ballots, and the inability for those who vote by mail to fix their ballots if they are rejected due to a perceived mismatch with their signature on...

Miller v. Thurston (Arkansas Redistricting Initiative)

Updated
April 22, 2020
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

CLC is challenging Arkansas’ onerous requirements to get a ballot initiative before voters. CLC’s client, Arkansas Voters First, is seeking to put an independent redistricting commission on the 2020 ballot.

League of Women Voters of Tennessee v. Tre Hargett

Updated
April 2, 2020
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections

Tennessee enacted a law severely curtailing the ability of civic organizations to conduct voter registration activities. CLC serves as counsel in a case challenging the constitutionality of the law.

Baber v. Dunlap (Maine RCV)

Updated
November 28, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

CLC is fighting to protect the right of Maine citizens to use the electoral system they voted for by ballot initiative: ranked choice voting, which expands voter choice by allowing them to rank preferences for more than a single candidate.

MCRP v. Reagan

Updated
November 9, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections

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.

Spirit Lake Tribe, et al. v. Jaeger

Updated
April 13, 2021
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections

North Dakota’s voter ID law requires that voters’ identification include their current residential street address in order to cast a regular ballot. The use of a residential address requirement negatively impacts the ability of Native Americans living on reservations in North Dakota to exercise...

Martin v. Kemp

Updated
October 23, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections

Gwinnett County, the second largest county in Georgia located northeast of Atlanta, rejected hundreds of mail-in ballots for immaterial errors and omissions. CLC filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of voters challenging these rejections.

Citizens Protecting Michigan's Constitution v. Secretary of State

Updated
July 3, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

CLC supported a successful grassroots effort to put a ballot initiative on the ballot in Michigan that created an independent redistricting commission.

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.

Corman v. Torres

Updated
March 19, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

Corman v. Torres is a lawsuit in federal court that attempts to prevent Pennsylvania elections officials from implementing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision that struck down the state’s extreme partisan gerrymander.

Citizens United v. Schneiderman

Updated
June 6, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Campaign Finance

Citizens United v. Schneiderman is a challenge to a New York State law that requires registered charitable organizations to report their donors to the state attorney general. 

Lamone v. Benisek

Updated
February 12, 2019
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

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...

League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Updated
March 26, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a challenge to the state’s 2011 congressional district map. The challengers argue that the map is an extreme partisan gerrymander, in violation of the Pennsylvania Constitution’s Free Expression and Association Clauses, as...

Fair Districts Colorado Ballot Initiatives in Support of Independent Redistricting Commissions

Updated
January 24, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

Fair Districts Colorado, a redistricting reform group, proposed a series of ballot initiatives that seek to establish independent redistricting commissions (IRCs) to draw Colorado’s state legislative and congressional district lines.

Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina

Updated
March 22, 2019
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

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.

Cockrum v. Trump (DDC)

Updated
December 11, 2017
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting and Elections

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...

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