Legal Trends to Watch in 2022 (Blog) 3/15/2022 With the new year comes more litigation. In the past year, the League has continued our work of fighting against anti-voter bills and purges, challenges to new district maps, and pushing back against…
Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson (Legal Case) 3/11/2022 Whole Woman’s Health, a Texas abortion clinic, sued Texas after the state passed a law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The law would be enforced through bounties paid to private…
League of Women Voters Reacts to 2020 US Census Bureau Report Undercount of Black, Latino, & Indigenous People (Press Release) 3/10/2022 Today the League of Women Voters of the United States CEO Virginia Kase Solomón issued the following statement in reaction to the US Census Bureau report undercounting 18.8 million and…
Colorado Voting Rights Advocates File Lawsuit Against Voter Intimidation (Press Release) 3/9/2022 Today, the League of Women Voters of Colorado and other civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit against election conspiracy group US Election Integrity Plan (USEIP) for voter intimidation…
Top Moments From Our Panel with Women Leaders in Advocacy (Blog) 3/8/2022 Our March 3 panel brought together a group of empowering women leaders: Amanda Brown Lierman, SuperMajority executive director; Sindy M. Benavides, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)…
League of Women Voters says Alabama bill would suppress voter outreach efforts (News Clips) 3/8/2022 This story was originally published in Al.com. The League of Women Voters of Alabama, Black Voters Matter, Greater Birmingham Ministries and other organizations spoke out today against a bill…
How the US Has Shifted Away from Pro-Voter Legislation (Blog) 3/7/2022 The pro-voter Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 moved quickly through Congress with strong bipartisan support. The…
The Women of Bloody Sunday (Blog) 3/4/2022 On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights protestors attempted to march the 50 miles between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama to protest the suppression of Black votes. In this blog, we honor the work…
Baltimore Co. Ordered to Resubmit Redistricting Plan In Compliance With VRA (News Clips) 3/1/2022 A federal judge has ordered the Baltimore County Council to scrap its redistricting plan after a lawsuit brought by Black residents and civil-rights groups said it…
NEW JERSEY MONITOR: Texans go to the polls under sweeping new voting restrictions (News Clips) 2/28/2022 HOUSTON — With less than two days until Texas’ primary election, Cedric and Myrtis Tatterson sat in a community center gym in Houston to fulfill the training required of them as election judges.