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New Radio Ads Urge Senators to Stop Secret Money, Support Full Disclosure
| KellyTennessee Senators Alexander and Corker, and Maine Senators Collins and Snowe Urged to Support Disclosure
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MORE THAN ONE MILLION COMMENTS SUPPORTING CARBON POLLUTION LIMITS DELIVERED TO EPA
| Jessica JonesWashington, DC – May 17, 2012: Today, a broad coalition of groups supporting clean air safeguards announced that more than one million Americans have shown their support for new standards to curb industrial carbon pollution from power plants by submitting comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). With over a month still remaining in the public comment period, this is already the largest number of public comments the EPA has ever received on any issue, and we anticipate many more comments to come in the weeks ahead.
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Right to Vote Under Attack
| KellyWashington, DC (May 17, 2012) – The League of Women Voters supports the goals of the new Voter Empowerment Act introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives.
“The right to vote is under attack in too many states across the country,” said Elisabeth MacNamara, national President of the League of Women Voters. “For example, in Florida there have been cutbacks in early voting and rigid new restrictions on community-based voter registration drives have been imposed,” she said.
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UNDERFUNDED JUDICIAL SYSTEM HANDICAPS DEMOCRACY
| KellyWashington, DC (May 1, 2012) – The League of Women Voters today raised serious concerns about the funding crisis that faces our nation’s judicial systems. May 1 is Law Day and what better occasion to highlight the serious consequences of an underfunded justice system for our country.
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APPEALS COURT RULES PROOF-OF-CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENT VIOLATES NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT (NVRA)
| KellyWashington, DC (April 17, 2012) – The following is a statement by Elisabeth MacNamara, national President of the League of Women Voters:
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S GREENHOUSE GAS RULE IS A MAJOR STEP IN CONTROLLING CLIMATE CHANGE
| KellyWashington, DC (April 13, 2012) – The League of Women Voters today praised the Administration’s proposed greenhouse gas rule for new power plants. The new rule, published this morning, will set new public health protections to limit industrial carbon pollution for future power plants, a key step in controlling global climate change.
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League Praises Decision to Continue to Put People Before Polluters
| KellyWashington, DC (March 27, 2012) – League of Women Voters national President, Elisabeth MacNamara issued the following statement regarding the Obama Administration's new rules, released earlier today, regulating carbon emissions for future power plants.
“EPA’s action on new fossil-fuel power plants is a necessary and long-delayed first step in controlling the carbon pollution that is harming our health,” she said.
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LWV of South Carolina Urges Court to Reject Restrictive Voter ID Law
| KellyWashington, D.C. (March 27, 2012) – The League of Women Voters of South Carolina urged a federal district court to reject the state’s restrictive voter ID law, arguing the law erects unnecessary barriers to voting and could disenfranchise thousands of minority voters.
The League, which is seeking to intervene in South Carolina v. Holder, is represented by the Brennan Center for Justice, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and pro bono by the law firms Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Derfner, Altman & Wilborn LLC.
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LWV of Texas and Partners Seek to Block Texas' Discriminatory Photo ID Law
| KellyLWV-TX, ACLU and ACLU of Texas, Advancement Project, Texas Legislative Black Caucus and Civil Rights Activists Seek to Block Texas’ Discriminatory Photo ID Law
Lawsuit Will Defend Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act and Protect Minorities’ Right to Vote