Press Releases

The League held its 51st biennial national convention this week. League members from around the country discussed important public policy issues and celebrated the organization’s accomplishments.

“The public is strongly in favor of reducing the deadly effects that carbon pollution has on the health of our children and our environment,” said League President MacNamara.

In McCutcheon v. FEC, the Supreme Court ruled that aggregate campaign contribution limits are invalid. This decision means more power for big money, more corruption for the rest of us.

In a big win for voters, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Florida’s plan to purge voters before the 2012 elections was prohibited by the National Voter Registration Act. 

A district court issued a ruling that approves the documentary proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration by Arizona and Kansas.

LWVUS submitted comments to the Internal Revenue Service urging urged them to keep pushing to stop the secret ‘dark money,’ while at the same time protecting truly nonpartisan work to provide the public with unbiased voter information.

This morning, the Presidential Commission on Election Administration will present their report to the Senate Rules and Administration Committee. We urged consideration of a 5-point reform agenda.

A U.S. District Court heard arguments to determine if the Election Assistance Commission's refusal to modify the National Mail Voter Registration Form was legal.

We are deeply disappointed by the State Department's Environmental Impact Statement report on the Keystone XL Pipeline project. We urge President Obama to protect people, not polluters.

“There are many good recommendations in this report and others that we will need to look at more closely to examine the real impact on American voters,” said League President Elisabeth MacNamara.