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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…

League of Women Voters of Ohio v. Ohio Redistricting Commission (state legislative maps) (Legal Case)

9/27/2023

LWV Ohio filed a lawsuit in state court challenging the new State House and State Senate maps as illegal partisan gerrymanders under the Ohio Constitution.

Common Cause Indiana v. City of Anderson (Legal Case)

9/20/2023

LWV Indiana and its co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the Anderson, Indiana, city council asserting its failure to redistrict city council districts violated state and federal law

League of Women Voters of Ohio v. La Rose (now League of Women Voters v. Huffman) (congressional map) (Legal Case)

9/7/2023

State court lawsuits by LWV Ohio asserting Ohio’s new Congressional map violated the Ohio Constitution’s ban on partisan gerrymandering.

Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute v. Byrd (formerly Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute v. Lee) (Legal Case)

9/2/2023

The League of Women Voters of Florida, together with voting rights organizations and individual plaintiffs, sued the Florida Legislature and Florida officials for violating the Florida Constitution…

LWVUS Joins Sign-on Letter Urging Congress to Invest in Gender Justice in the 2023 Farm Bill (Legal Document)

8/14/2023

LWVUS joined more than 250 other groups on a letter to House and Senate agriculture committee leadership urging them to protect and strengthen the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and…

Finn v. Cobb County Board of Elections & Registration (Legal Case)

7/18/2023

A lawsuit challenging the newly drawn district map for the Cobb County Board of Education as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

LWVUS Joins Call to Protect Air Quality (Legal Document)

7/18/2023

LWVUS joined 60 partnering organizations in a letter to members of Congress in opposition to S.J. Res 31/H.J. Res 69. This resolution would roll back EPA's Good Neighbor Plan.

LWV Utah v. Utah State Legislature (Legal Case)

7/11/2023

LWV Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) sued to strike down gerrymandered congressional districts and reinstate an independent redistricting commission

Moore v. Harper (Legal Case)

6/27/2023

The Republican-controlled North Carolina Legislature, asserting that state legislatures had exclusive power over redistricting, petitioned the Supreme Court for review, after the state supreme court…