Litigation Advocacy
LWVUS Litigation Advocacy: Voting Rights Groups Challenge Trumps Recent Anti-Voter Executive Order (March 27, 2025)
A coalition of voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to challenge President Trump’s unlawful executive order on voting. The order attempts to seize the power to set voter registration rules from Congress and the states, and doing so in a way that would violate federal law and the Constitution if carried out by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). Key provisions of Trumps order could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters, particularly voters of color, women voters, naturalized citizens, voters with disabilities, voters with low incomes, and first-time voters.
The groups are challenging the orders usurpation of powers, including its directive for the US Election Assistance Commission to change the federal voter registration form to require burdensome submission of documents to prove citizenship, which many Americans do not have or cannot readily acquire. Under existing law, registrants already have to swear to their citizenship under penalty of perjury, and there is no evidence that non-citizens are registering to vote at significant rates.
Click HERE to read the March 27 letter to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
Click HERE to read the April 1 complaint.
LWVLA Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Felony Voter Rights Restoration Suit (May 2023)
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Read the press release.
Legislative Advocacy
Support for HB 490
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Support for SB 80
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Support for 538
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Support for HB 459 and HB 553
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