League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose (HB 458 challenge) (Legal Case) 7/22/2024 LWV Ohio filed a federal lawsuit against a new state law restricting assistance to voters with returning absentee ballots
Colorado Montana Wyoming State Area Conference of the NAACP v. United States Election Integrity Plan (Legal Case) 7/19/2024 LWV Colorado, the Colorado Montana and Wyoming Area Conference of the NAACP and Mi Familia Vota, filed a lawsuit alleging voter intimidation by the United States Election Integrity Project (USEIP)
Federal Court Upholds Mississippi Lifetime Felony Disenfranchisement Law (Press Release) 7/18/2024 The League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters of Mississippi, along with the Mississippi Center for Justice, One Voice, Mississippi Votes, the Mississippi State…
Hopkins v. Hosemann (now Watson) (Legal Case) 7/18/2024 LWVUS, LWV Mississippi, and 11 other civil rights organizations filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs asserting Mississippi’s permanent felony disenfranchisement law violated the Eighth…
A Win for Fair Maps in Utah! (Press Release) 7/11/2024 In a victory for Utah voters, the Utah Supreme Court allowed Utah voters to move forward with their claim that the Legislature illegally gutted a citizen-led anti-gerrymandering initiative.
LWV Utah v. Utah State Legislature (Legal Case) 7/11/2024 LWV Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) sued to strike down gerrymandered congressional districts and reinstate an independent redistricting commission
LWVUS joins a letter in opposition to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (Legal Document) 7/9/2024 LWVUS joined a letter to the House of Representatives in opposition to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.
LWV Greeley-Weld County v. Weld County Board of Commissioners (Legal Case) 7/1/2024 LWV of Greeley-Weld County and the Latino Coalition of Weld County filed a state court lawsuit asserting the Weld County Commission violated state law when redrawing its districts
City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson (Legal Case) 6/28/2024 LWV California and LWV San Francisco joined an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court arguing against the criminalization of homelessness.
United States v. Idaho (consolidated with Moyle v. United States) (Legal Case) 6/27/2024 LWVUS and nearly 100 other organizations joined an amicus brief filed by the National Women’s Law Center arguing that EMTALA preempts Idaho’s abortion ban