Six Years Since Shelby Shows There’s More Work to Do. Here’s How You Can Make an Impact. (Blog) 6/26/2019 The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was one of the most important pieces of legislation of the 20th Century when it was established in 1965.…
League Urges Congress to Lift Severe Caps on Discretionary Spending (Article) 6/26/2019 LWVUS joined organizations connected to the Coalition on Human Needs on a letter urging members of Congress to lift severe caps on domestic and…, Dear Representative/Senator: The undersigned organizations strongly urge you to continue the progress advanced in the last two years by supporting…
League Urges Co-Sponsorship of Resolution Establishing Democracy Month (Article) 6/26/2019 The League of Women Voters sent a memo to U.S. Senators urging them to co-sponsor S. Res 252, a resolution to establish September as…, Dear Senator: The League of Women Voters, with affiliates in communities across your state, joins four former Senate Majority Leaders, Bob Dole,…
League Urges Support for Census Bureau Funding in FY 2020 Budget (Legal Document) 6/24/2019 On July 17, the League joined the Census Project and other affiliates calling on Congress to support the funding levels for the Census Bureau…
LWV Joins D.C. Voting Rights Case (Press Release) 6/10/2019 D.C. residents are tax-paying citizens who deserve to be fully enfranchised WASHINGTON, D.C.—The League of Women Voters of the United…
League Amicus Brief filed in Castanon v. United States (Legal Document) 6/10/2019 The League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief along with…
The Right of Citizenship (Blog) 6/7/2019 Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a naturalization ceremony in Washington, D.C., where 118 women and men from countries around the globe…
League Endorses Creation of National Democracy Month (Legal Document) 6/5/2019 The League sent a letter to U.S. Senators encouraging them to support and pass a resolution making September National Democracy Month. Dear…
For the People Act Town Hall in New Mexico (Blog) 5/29/2019 This guest blog post was written by Judy Williams, president of the League of Women Voters of New Mexico. On May 11 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the…
Washington Post: How a large-scale effort to register black voters led to a crackdown in Tennessee (News Clips) 5/24/2019 This article was originally published by the Washington Post. Last year, an army of paid workers with stacks of voter registration forms fanned out…