League Urges Senate to Vote Yes on Freedom to Vote Act (Legal Document) 9/23/2021 In a memo to the US Senate, LWV urged Senators to support passage of the Freedom to Vote Act. Members of the LWVUS Lobby Corps will be…
LWV Files Amicus Brief in Voter Intimidation Case Before SCOTUS (Press Release) 9/21/2021 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen threatens to eliminate laws regulating guns in public places WASHINGTON — Late Monday, the…
How Texas Advocates Mitigated the Attack on Voting Rights (Blog) 9/9/2021 This blog was written by Susan Schultz of the LWV of Texas. In early September 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbot signed Senate Bill 1 (SB1) into law.…, SB1: A Deeply Flawed Improvement on Prior Bills While SB1 still restricts voting rights and violates Americans’ freedom to vote, the worst…
Advocates File Amicus with California Supreme Court, Letter Urging Extension of Redistricting Deadline (Press Release) 9/7/2021 OAKLAND — Today, the League of Women Voters of California and several partners filed an amicus letter in support of the California Citizens…
LWV of Arizona Files in Support of Public Transparency in AZ Senate’s Sham Election “Audit” (Press Release) 8/31/2021 UPDATE Sept. 14, 2021: The Arizona Supreme Court denied review of the appeal in American Oversight v. Arizona Senate and dissolved the stay that had…
LWVUS Joins Partners in Urging US House to Support HR4 (Legal Document) 8/23/2021 August 23, 2021 SUPPORT H.R. 4, JOHN LEWIS VOTING RIGHTS ADVANCEMENT ACT Dear Representative: On behalf of The Leadership Conference on…
Census Data Has Been Released: Here is How We Get Fair Maps (Blog) 8/12/2021 To determine how we will be represented and how funds for schools, hospitals, and other essential services will be allocated…
League of Women Voters Encourages Public Participation in Map-Drawing Process (Press Release) 8/12/2021 WASHINGTON - Today, the Census Bureau is expected to release census data in its legacy format, officially marking the…
The Fight for Voting Rights: Then and Now (Blog) 8/5/2021 This blog was updated in June 2023. The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It was a…, One example was in 1917 in Buchanan v. Warley, where the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Kentucky law enforcing residential segregation. The Court…, The Court ruled against our interests. On June 25, 2013, the Court ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that Section 4(b) was unconstitutional because the formula…