LWVUS Welcomes House Introduction of George Floyd Justice in Policing Act (Legal Document) 5/23/2024 The League of Women Voters of the United States joined a sign-on letter to leadership in the US House of Representatives, welcoming the…
LWV's Work with Urgent Social Justice Issues (Blog) 5/22/2024 To achieve the League's vision of a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge, and the confidence to participate, LWV…, The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)The League supports ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and efforts to bring laws into compliance with the…, Climate ChangeThe League supports climate goals and policies that are consistent with the best available climate science and that will ensure a…, Gun SafetyThe League believes in protecting the health and safety of citizens through limiting the accessibility and regulating the ownership of…, ImmigrationThe League believes in promoting the reunification of immediate families, meeting the economic, business, and employment needs of the…, Reproductive JusticeThe League believes in protecting the constitutional right of privacy of the individual to make reproductive choices.…, How You Can Get Involved in Urgent IssuesTake one minute to urge your members of Congress to support the Equal Rights Amendment; Take one minute…
LWVUS Opposes SAVE Act (Legal Document) 5/16/2024 LWVUS joined coalition partners to oppose the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require citizenship documentation to cast…
Representing Middle Eastern and North African Citizens in the Census (Blog) 5/15/2024 In 2020, when it was time for my family to fill out the Census, we could only check one box in the race category: white. My family is Libyan-American…, The History of Arabs, Asians, and Proximity to Whiteness The history of Arab Americans' identity advocacy began in the early twentieth century…, In response, Shishim appealed to Judge George Hutton on account of his Christian identity,arguing, “If I am a Mongolian, then so was Jesus, because…, One important way to remedy this issue is to include a Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) ethnic category on the decennial census. Since the…, New OMB Standards are Published to Include MENA At the end of March 2024, the OMB announced that new federal standards for collecting data…, As the undercount of MENA-identifying Americans went on, it became clear to Arabs and advocates that the lack of data about their communities was…
VICTORY: Judge Permanently Blocks Part of Florida’s Restrictive Voting Law Targeting Nonpartisan Florida Voter Registration Groups (Press Release) 5/15/2024 Today, a federal judge permanently blocked a severely restrictive provision of Florida’s anti-voter law, SB7050, that targeted nonpartisan civic…
LWVUS Opposes Intrusion into D.C. Local Governance (Legal Document) 5/13/2024 LWVUS joined coalition partners in strong opposition to H.R. 7530, the D.C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe (DC CRIMES) Act, and H…