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 absentee ballots that were returned and properly sealed by the statutory deadline but were rejected for being incorrectly dated.
Hecox v. Little (Legal Case) 4/29/2024 LWVUS filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs challenging restrictions on transgender, nonbinary, and intersex students in school sports
League of Women Voters helps Missoula College students access voting information (News Clips) 4/25/2024 This news segment originally aired on KPAX The Missoula League of Women Voters offered up voter information and registration forms at Missoula College
United States v. Idaho (consolidated with Moyle v. United States) (Legal Case) 4/24/2024 LWVUS and nearly 100 other organizations joined an amicus brief filed by the National Women’s Law Center arguing that EMTALA preempts Idaho’s abortion ban
League of Women Voters of Montana v. Knudsen (Legal Case) 4/24/2024 LWV Montana filed a state court lawsuit against HB 892, which imposed criminal penalties on voters
EMTALA at SCOTUS: Abortion Will Always Be a Federal Issue (Blog) 4/23/2024 The Supreme Court case Moyle v. United States could leave women and people who can become pregnant at risk of permanent bodily harm, creating a patchwork in which some states provide reproductive…
Marilyn McLeod: Defending democracy, from the library to the League of Women Voters (News Clips) 4/18/2024 This story was originally published by The Columbia Missourian Marilyn McLeod’s dedication to democracy started at the public library. She spent 25 years serving the Columbia community at the…
LWV of Iowa, One Iowa File Brief Protecting Students from Harmful LGBTQIA+ Book Ban in Schools (Press Release) 4/18/2024 The League of Women Voters of Iowa and One Iowa filed an amicus brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit asking the court to uphold a lower court’s injunction on an Iowa ban on certain…
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