June 9, 2010

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House of Representatives
U.S Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Speaker Pelosi:

Our organizations are writing to express our strong support for the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) and our opposition to the efforts being undertaken by some Members to undermine the House rules that established the Office.

Leagues File Amicus Brief in lawsuit challening AZ immigration law

The League of Women Voters of Arizona and the League of Women Voters of the U.S. joined this lawsuit challenging the recently-enacted SB 1070 in Arizona, purported to be an attempt to curb illegal immigration, that “will subject United States citizens and legal residents who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups, and particularly those who may be perceived to be somehow ‘foreign,’ to the disruption, stress, and humiliation of detention and interrogation.”