The Brennan Center and Protect Democracy filed suit to compel the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and Office of Management and Budget to disclose information pertaining to the president’s “Election Integrity” Commission.
The Brennan Center, in conjunction with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has filed an amicus brief urging the Virginia Supreme Court to consider the civil liberties implications of collecting and indefinitely storing the sensitive data generated by automated license plate readers without any suspicion of criminal activity.
Utah limits access to individualized voter registration data to certain entities and purposes, and Lieutenant Governor Cox’s sharing of data with the Commission could potentially expose data belonging to over 1.5 million registered Utah voters.
The groups and a private plaintiff argue that the Texas Secretary of State would break state law if he hands over personal information about voters to the president’s “Election Integrity” Commission without meeting certain conditions.
Brennan Center and co-counsel filed a lawsuit on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Indiana and the Indiana NAACP seeking to prevent Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson from producing voter registration information to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
The League of Women Voters and a group of Democratic Pennsylvania voters filed a lawsuit to challenge Pennsylvania’s 2011 congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander under the state constitution.
On April 24, 2017, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP filed a lawsuit alleging that Georgia’s 2015 state house map was drawn with discriminatory purpose in violation of the Constitution and Voting Rights Act. In addition, the plaintiffs assert that the map resulted in unconstitutional racial and partisan gerrymanders.