News & Commentary
May 15, 2017
Supreme Court's Decision Maintains Ruling that Discrimination Has No Place at the Polls
Almost four years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union and Southern Coalition for Social Justice challenged VIVA, described by one expert as “the most sweeping anti-voter law in at least decades.” The Supreme Court announced today that it would not review that law.
Nov 11, 2015
ACLU Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho to Keynote ACLU-NC's April 2 Liberty Awards Dinner
Jul 30, 2015
Closing Arguments Set to Begin in Challenge to North Carolina's Restrictive Voting Law
Over the past weeks, we heard about the hurdles that voters faced to cast their vote under the suppressive law North Carolina instituted almost two years ago.
Jul 14, 2015
Votes Not Counted: Day One of North Carolina’s Voter Suppression Trial
The ACLU and other groups were in federal court for the first day of arguments against North Carolina’s 2013 voter suppression law, which many court observers have called the most restrictive voting law in the nation.
By Mike Meno
Jul 13, 2015
North Carolina Is Making It Harder for People to Vote, and We’re Pushing Back
Trial begins in our challenge to the North Carolina's 2013 voter suppression law, which election law expert Richard Hasen described as “the most sweeping anti-voter law in at least decades,” designed “to make it harder for people — especially non-white people . . . — to register or cast a vote.
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