League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose (HB 458 challenge) (Legal Case) 12/19/2023 LWV Ohio filed a federal lawsuit against a new state law restricting assistance to voters with returning absentee ballots
Hopkins v. Hosemann (now Watson) (Legal Case) 1/23/2024 LWVUS, LWV Mississippi, and 11 other civil rights organizations filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs asserting Mississippi’s permanent felony disenfranchisement law violated the Eighth…
Voting and Disability Rights Advocates Take Legal Action to Protect Mississippi Absentee Ballot Law (Press Release) 2/22/2024 GULFPORT, Miss. — Voting and disability rights advocates are asking to intervene in a lawsuit filed by the Mississippi Republican Party and Republican National Committee that seeks to overturn a…
A Woman, a Dad, and a League of Women Voters (News Clips) 2/14/2024 This story was originally published in Bar Harbor Story. The Southwest Harbor woman was growing up in Florida when she heard about the League of Women Voters trying to get people who were convicted…
Democracy Advocates File Brief in New Case Challenging New Jersey’s Primary Ballot Design (Press Release) 3/13/2024 The League of Women Voters of New Jersey and partners filed an amicus curiae brief in Kim v. Hanlon, a case challenging New Jersey’s use of the unconstitutional and discriminatory “county line” on…
Council of American-Islamic Relations Minnesota v. Atlas Aegis, LLC (Legal Case) 2/16/2021 LWV Minnesota and CAIR Minnesota filed a federal lawsuit asserting voter intimidation by Atlas Aegis, a private security firm seeking to hire armed retired service members to guard polling places
League of Women Voters of Ohio files federal lawsuit over election law (News Clips) 12/22/2023 This story was originally published by Spectrum News. The League of Women Voters Ohio is filing a joint-lawsuit challenging the part of the law that limits who can deliver an absentee ballot to the…
Coalition of Voting Rights, Civil Rights, and Racial Justice Groups File Brief in Federal Appeal Challenging Mississippi’s “Jim Crow” Lifetime Felony Disenfranchisement Law (Press Release) 12/8/2023 JACKSON, Miss. — The League of Women Voters of the US, the League of Women Voters of Mississippi, the Mississippi Center for Justice, One Voice, Mississippi Votes, Mississippi State Conference of the…
Adkins v. Virginia Redistricting Commission (Legal Case) 9/22/2021 LWV Virginia filed an amicus brief in a case challenging HB 1225, which set standards and criteria for the Virginia Redistricting Commission when drawing legislative districts
Restrictions on absentee ballot help in Alabama are being challenged in a lawsuit (News Clips) 4/4/2024 This story was originally published in Associated Press The Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and other groups are plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in federal court.…