The Navajo Nation of Arizona requests that vote-by-mail ballots received within ten days of Election Day be counted due to the slower postal service and unequal proximity to post offices on the Navajo Nation reservation.
LWV joined a lawsuit filed by New York State and a coalition of state and local governments claiming that the Trump Administration’s attempts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census was unconstitutional.
A group of Wisconsin voters filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Wisconsin Legislature’s 2011 proposed redistricting map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin filed an amicus brief in the case supporting the challenge to the map.
The League of Women Voters of Georgia, along with Common Cause, Dr. Ursula Thomas, Jasmine Bowles, and Dr. H. Benjamin Williams, filed suit in federal court against Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary of State, and other members of the Georgia legislature asserting three Congressional districts in metropolitan Atlanta were racially gerrymandered.
Drew Adams, a high school student, and his mother sued the St. Johns County School Board for discriminating against Drew because he is transgender. The School Board maintains a policy prohibiting Drew from using the boys’ restroom at school, in violation of Title IX and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The League of Women Voters joined an amicus brief in support of Drew.
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Shelby County was a landmark decision that gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the most powerful civil rights legislation ever passed. LWVUS filed an amicus brief at the US Supreme Court, arguing the law’s provision of federal oversight of local election procedures was needed to protect voters of color.
LWVNC v. Rucho challenged North Carolina’s 2016 redistricting plan as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander and a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The case was consolidated with Common Cause v. Rucho, and the US Supreme Court ultimately ruled that partisan gerrymandering claims are not properly heard in federal court.
