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December 10, 1948 saw the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly and spearheaded by the League of Women Voters first…
The Senate must pass the VRAA to restore full Voting Rights Act before 2020
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H.R. 4, the Voting…
The League joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights on a letter sent to the U.S. House of Representatives in favor of final passage of H.R. 4, the Voting…
Organizational Background
The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) is a nonpartisan, community-based membership organization dedicated to empowering citizens…
Every time I walk to the kitchen in our office, I pass a door adorned with the Suffragette flag and the words, “Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?” While…
This blog post was contributed by LWV of Connecticut president Carol Reimers.
Election security is all about voter confidence. If voters lose that confidence, if they…
On November 12, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of Univ. of Cal., et. al, which is a trio of cases suing the…
The League of Women Voters leaders will ride on a Rose Parade float to commemorate women’s suffrage
WASHINGTON & Pasadena, CA – The League of Women Voters is proud to…
On October 8, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Bostock v. Clayton County, et al. and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. EEOC. Bostock is a consolidation set of cases …
It’s been over 6 years since the U.S. Supreme Court, in their decision of Shelby County v. Holder, gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The decision by the…