League joins ACLU, DEMOS in submitting Comments to CMS (Legal Document) 5/6/2024 The League joined the ACLU and Demos on a federal register notice from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
REPORT: Women Voters by the Numbers (Blog) 5/2/2024 We pulled US Census to get a snapshot of how women are voting. It made one thing clear: the next election is up to women. See our map showing the power of women voters in 2022 and our graph on…
Juliana v. United States (Legal Case) 5/1/2024 LWVUS and the LWV Oregon filed amicus briefs supporting youth seeking a court order requiring the federal government to plan to end fossil fuel emissions
LWVUS Supports Voting Rights Restoration (Legal Document) 5/1/2024 LWVUS Federal Lobby Corps lobbied Congress in support of the Next Step Home Act to restore the voting rights of thousands of Americans with prior convictions.
Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP v. Chapman (now Schmidt) (Legal Case) 4/30/2024 LWV of Pennsylvania and co-plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit to count mail ballots that were returned and properly sealed by the statutory deadline but were rejected for being incorrectly dated.
Kim v. Hanlon (Legal Case) 4/17/2024 LWV New Jersey filed an amicus brief opposing the state’s county line system in federal court, asserting it was unconstitutional and discriminatory
Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Disability Rights Groups Sue Alabama Over SB1’s Extreme Anti-Voter Restrictions and Penalties (Press Release) 4/4/2024 A coalition of civil rights, voting rights and disability rights organizations suedto block Alabama’s recently enacted Senate Bill 1 (SB1). This law directly targets, drastically restricts, and…
Republican National Committee v. Benson (Legal Case) 4/4/2024 LWV Michigan moved to intervene on behalf of voters in a lawsuit brought by the RNC seeking to purge the state’s voter rolls for alleged violations of the NVRA
Democracy North Carolina v. Hirsch (Legal Case) 4/2/2024 LWV of North Carolina sued over a North Carolina law allowing election officials to throw out same-day registering voters’ ballots if a single address confirmation mailing was undeliverable
Mason-Hobbs v. Texas (Legal Case) 3/29/2024 Crystal Mason is a Black Texas resident who was unaware she was ineligible to vote while on supervised release and was sentenced to five years in prison for voting in the 2016 election.