LWVUS joined 55 other civic organizations in filing an amicus brief supporting the Attorneys General of Virginia, Nevada, and Illinois. The brief supported the state attorneys general in their lawsuit to order the Archivist of the United States to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), adding it to the constitution as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment.
Members of the Navajo Nation of Arizona filed a federal lawsuit asserting Arizona’s requirement for mail-in ballots to be received by 7:00 pm on Election Day disenfranchised Navajo Nation voters who experience mailing barriers while living on the Navajo reservation, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Arizona Constitution. LWV of Arizona filed an amicus brief in support of the Navajo Nation
LWV joined a lawsuit filed by New York State and a coalition of state and local governments claiming that the Trump Administration’s attempts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census was unconstitutional.
A group of Wisconsin voters filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Wisconsin Legislature’s 2011 proposed redistricting map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin filed an amicus brief in the case supporting the challenge to the map.
The League of Women Voters of Georgia, along with Common Cause, Dr. Ursula Thomas, Jasmine Bowles, and Dr. H. Benjamin Williams, filed suit in federal court against Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary of State, and other members of the Georgia legislature asserting three Congressional districts in metropolitan Atlanta were racially gerrymandered.
Drew Adams, a high school student, and his mother sued the St. Johns County School Board for discriminating against Drew because he is transgender. The School Board maintains a policy prohibiting Drew from using the boys’ restroom at school, in violation of Title IX and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The League of Women Voters joined an amicus brief in support of Drew.
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Shelby County was a landmark decision that gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the most powerful civil rights legislation ever passed. LWVUS filed an amicus brief at the US Supreme Court, arguing the law’s provision of federal oversight of local election procedures was needed to protect voters of color.
