Administration’s Action to Bypass the Supreme Court’s Ruling is a Threat to Democracy (Press Release) 7/11/2019 Highest Court Decision to Exclude Citizenship Question Must Be Protected WASHINGTON – Ahead of an expected White House announcement…
League Celebrates 2020 Census Will Not Include a Citizenship Question (Press Release) 7/2/2019 Late Tuesday the Trump Administration announced the 2020 Census forms will be printed without a citizenship question. The announcement came days after the Supreme Court blocked the question.
Supreme Court Upholds Exclusion of Citizenship Question in 2020 Census (Press Release) 6/27/2019 Today, the Supreme Court ruled in Department of Commerce v. New York that a citizenship question in the U.S. Census report cannot proceed. LWVNY was one of the several plaintiffs.
The League Urges Trump Administration to Acknowledge the Impact of Climate Change (Press Release) 12/12/2018 League UN Observers for Climate Working with Paris Agreement Parties at International Conference KATOWICE, POLAND - The League of Women Voters of…
League Celebrates Record Number of Women Elected in 2018 (Press Release) 11/7/2018 Expected Historic Voter Turnout in Record-Setting Midterm Washington, DC – On Tuesday, Americans elected more female candidates to…
VOTE411.org Hits 1 Million Users in 2018 (Press Release) 7/30/2018 This month the election information website VOTE411.org surpassed expectations and hit the 1 million user milestone before primary elections are complete.
LWV Statement on EPA Clean Power Plan Repeal (Press Release) 10/10/2017 By repealing the Clean Power Plan, the White House is putting the interests of corporate polluters ahead of the health and safety of the American public.
League Statement on the Paris Climate Agreement (Press Release) 6/1/2017 Washington, DC – The League of Women Voters president, Chris Carson issued the following statement in response to President Trump's announcement that the United States will leave t
League Statement on Keystone Pipeline Moving Forward (Press Release) 1/24/2017 Washington, DC – The League of Women Voters president, Chris Carson, issued the following statement after President Trump signed executive actions to advance the construction of th
21 NGOs: Excluding Arctic and Atlantic from Offshore Leasing Moves U.S. Closer to Clean Energy Future (Press Release) 11/18/2016 WASHINGTON (November 18, 2016) – The Obama Administration took bold action today, announcing it will exclude the Arctic Ocean from its oil and gas leasing progr