Students for Fair Admissions, a non-profit representing students and others opposed to race-conscious admissions, sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, alleging their consideration of race in admissions violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The plaintiffs also called for the Supreme Court to overturn Grutter v. Bollinger, which permitted holistic consideration of race, along with other factors, to ensure admission of underrepresented students of color to achieve a diverse student body. 

The League of Women Voters of Texas and partners filed a lawsuit challenging the Texas’s voter suppression legislation, Senate Bill 1, which imposes strict ID requirements for mail-in ballots, a restriction on aiding voters who need help completing or returning their ballots, and a ballot collection ban.

The plaintiffs requested that the court extend Arizona's registration deadline by three weeks due to challenges from COVID-19. LWV of Arizona filed an amicus brief in support of the registration deadline extension.

LWVUS, alongside LWV of Alabama, LWV of Georgia, and LWV of Kansas, filed a federal lawsuit against the Election Assistance Commission Executive Director Brian Newby for allowing three states to add a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form, violating the National Voter Registration Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.

The League of Women Voters of Florida and co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court, arguing that SB90, which reduces access to ballot drop boxes, bans organizations and volunteers from returning absentee ballots for voters, and forbids anyone but election workers from giving food and water to voters waiting in line, violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution.

LWV of Arkansas and individual plaintiffs filed a federal court challenge to Arkansas’ requirements for absentee ballots, seeking remedial action prior to the November 2020 election. The suit claimed that Arkansas’ signature match requirement, and the lack of an effective notice and cure process, violate voters’ due process rights and fundamental rights to vote.

The League of Women Voters of the US filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs in Hecox v. Little on appeal at the Ninth Circuit. The case challenges Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which targets transgender, nonbinary, and intersex students with the nation’s harshest requirements for participation in women’s sports.

The League of Women Voters of Georgia, NAACP Georgia, and other coalition partners filed a lawsuit challenging SB202, a new law that restricted early voting and ballot drop boxes and criminalized providing water and food to voters waiting in line to vote. The Department of Justice filed a similar suit, which was consolidated with the League’s suit. The law also imposes new voter ID requirements and halves the time voters are allowed to request absentee ballots.

Lawsuit filed on behalf of Fair Maps Texas Action Committee (of which the LWV of Texas is a member), OCA-Greater Houston, the North Texas Chapter of the Asian Pacific Islander Americans Public Affairs Association, Emgage Texas and individual voters challenging the state’s new legislative and congressional districts as a violation of the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  

The Supreme Court of the United States upheld Arizona's out-of-precinct policy, which does not allow the counting of ballots cast outside of the voter's designated precinct, and Arizona's ballot collection law, which permits only certain individuals to handle another person's completed early ballot. The LWVUS and the LWV of Arizona filed amicus briefs in the case.