A Win for Fair Maps in Utah! (Press Release) 7/11/2024 Salt Lake City, UT — In a victory for Utah voters, the Utah Supreme Court allowed Utah voters to move forward with their claim that the Legislature…
Supreme Court Preserves Access to Abortion Drug Mifepristone (Press Release) 6/13/2024 WASHINGTON — Today, the League of Women Voters of the United States issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in FDA v.…
Supreme Court Opens the Door for Unchecked Racial Discrimination in Redistricting (Press Release) 5/23/2024 WASHINGTON — Today the Supreme Court of the United States overturned a lower court’s ruling that South Carolina’s congressional map was an…, “The League is deeply disappointed with today’s Supreme Court ruling that allows our state to move forward with discriminatory maps that divide the…, Justice Elena Kagan’s dissent laments that the majority opinion opens the door for egregious and unchecked racial gerrymandering by mapmakers, noting…
LWV of Iowa, One Iowa File Brief Protecting Students from Harmful LGBTQIA+ Book Ban in Schools (Press Release) 4/18/2024 St. Louis, Missouri — Today, the League of Women Voters of Iowa and One Iowa filed an amicus brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit…
The League of Women Voters of Arizona Condemns Arizona Supreme Court Decision to Revive 1864 Abortion Ban (Press Release) 4/9/2024 PHOENIX — The League of Women Voters of Arizona condemns the decision by the Arizona Supreme Court to reinstate the territorial-era abortion ban…
League of Women Voters Joins Amicus Brief Urging Importance of Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor (EMTALA) Act (Press Release) 3/29/2024 WASHINGTON — The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) joined an amicus brief filed in the consolidated Idaho v. United States and…
League of Women Voters Statement on Illinois State Court Ruling (Press Release) 3/1/2024 WASHINGTON; SPRINGFIELD, IL — The League of Women Voters of the US and the League of Women Voters of Illinois issued the following statement in…
League of Women Voters Statement on Maine SOS Decision (Press Release) 12/29/2023 WASHINGTON; PORTLAND, ME — The League of Women Voters of the US and the League of Women Voters of Maine issued the following statement in response to…
GEORGIA COURT BLOCKS RACIALLY GERRYMANDERED COBB COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD MAP (Press Release) 12/15/2023 COBB COUNTY, GA — In a win for Black and Latino voters, the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia blocked the Cobb County School…
VICTORY: Federal Court Rules Pennsylvania Mail Ballots Without a Handwritten Date On the Outer Envelope Must be Counted (Press Release) 11/21/2023 PITTSBURGH — A federal court in western Pennsylvania ruled today that voters who submit mail ballots in time to be counted in an election —…