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Caren Short

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Director of Legal and Research

Caren E. Short (she/her/hers) is the Director of Legal and Research for the League of Women Voters of the United States. In this role, Caren manages a team of legal and technical experts working to oversee, innovate, and support the League’s state and federal litigation dockets. She also works in coordination with the Director of Government Affairs to ensure that the League’s legislative and litigation strategies are aligned toward the mission, vision, and values of the organization.

 

Major End-of-Term Supreme Court Cases (Blog)

Every June, the League, our partners, and people around the country await the US Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) opinions on critical issues like access to the ballot, redistricting, reproductive rights, and more. This blog reflects on several end-of-term cases from the last decade or so that have had a major impact on democracy.

A Racial Gerrymandering Case at the Supreme Court: Alexander v. SC State Conf. of the NAACP (Blog)

The League is invested in and carefully watching an important redistricting case, Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. The case is an appeal from a ruling striking down South Carolina’s congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Selma and Current Threats to the Voting Rights Act (Blog)

As activists gathered in Selma on Sunday to reenact the steps of marchers like John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr., we are reminded that the fight for voting rights is as alive today as it was in 1965. Indeed, the landmark law that passed after Bloody Sunday — the Voting Rights Act of 1965 —  is in critical condition. 

State Legislature Seeks Unchecked Power over Elections in Moore v. Harper (Blog)

A dangerous theory known as the “independent state legislature doctrine" argues that state legislatures have unconditional power to legislate on election issues and cannot be reviewed by any established checks and balances.