LWV's Work with Urgent Social Justice Issues (Blog) 5/22/2024 To achieve a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge, and the confidence to participate, LWV advocates on issues like voting rights and “urgent issues." Urgent…
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…
League of Women Voters of Nebraska files amicus brief in Planned Parenthood case (News Clips) 1/3/2024 This story was originally published in the Lincoln Journal Star. A nonpartisan civic organization has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a case before the Nebraska Supreme Court over the law that…
LWV Statement on Appeals Court Ruling to Undermine the Voting Rights Act (Press Release) 11/21/2023 The League of Women Voters of the United States issued the following statement after the Eighth Circuit of Appeals ruled there is no “private right of action” for Section 2 of the Voting Rights…
Virginia Admitted to Wrongfully Removing 3,400 Voters. Can It Recover Ahead of Pivotal Elections? (News Clips) 10/31/2023 This story was originally published in Mother Jones. “How can you figure out how many people will not vote because they’re too afraid to go to the polls? There’s no way to get that number,” Joan…
See which states are expanding — or restricting — voting rights (News Clips) 10/27/2023 This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity. While restoration of the federal Voting Rights Act languishes in a split Congress, an already deep divide in Americans’ access…
North Carolina Pro-Democracy Groups File Lawsuit Against Youth Voting Restrictions (Press Release) 10/17/2023 DURHAM — North Carolina’s Senate Bill 747 (SB747) is an unconstitutional burden on the fundamental right to vote of young North Carolinians, according to a new lawsuit filed in federal court today by…
The Hyde Amendment: An Abortion Barrier Hiding in Plain Sight (Blog) 9/28/2023 The Hyde Amendment prohibits the use of federal funding for most abortions. As a result, most people enrolled in public health programs cannot use their health care coverage to pay for abortion…
Supreme Court Review: The October 2022 Term (Blog) 9/26/2023 During the 2022 Supreme Court term, the League of Women Voters filed amicus briefs in four cases: Moore v. Harper, Allen v. Milligan, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and 303 Creative, LLC v…
LWV Applauds House Reintroduction of John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (Press Release) 9/19/2023 WASHINGTON – Today the League of Women Voters of the United States CEO Virginia Kase Solomón issued the following statement in response to the House reintroduction of the John Lewis Voting Rights…