Voting Rights
Voting Rights Groups Sue to Stop Florida Congressional Map
TALLAHASSEE, FL (May 5, 2026) — Common Cause, the League of Women Voters of Florida (LWVFL), and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC),…
Fighting for Fair Districts
Featured Entries
Voting Rights
Federal Judges Allow Latest Congressional Map to Stand Despite Harms to Black Voters
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Nov. 26, 2025) — A panel of federal judges will not block the North Carolina General Assembly’s latest congressional map, which changes Congressional…
Voting Rights
Voters, Pro-Democracy Groups Seek to Stop Retaliatory Redistricting Targeting NC Black Belt
DURHAM, N.C. (Oct. 28, 2025) — Individual voters and two pro-democracy groups are challenging the North Carolina General Assembly’s latest congressional map — the fifth…
Voting Rights
A Win for Community Mapping in Edgecombe County
TARBORO, N.C. (July 17, 2025) — The Edgecombe County Board of Education unanimously adopted a community redistricting map for its 2026 electoral districts earlier this…
Voting Rights
Texas Advocates Shift Focus After Racial Gerrymandering Case Dismissed
EL PASO, Texas (March 25, 2025) — A coalition of Texas voting and civil rights advocates announced this week they will not continue to pursue…
Voting Rights
Group of Nation’s Civil Rights Attorneys Urges SCOTUS to Keep Voting Rights Act Intact
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 21, 2025) — On the heels of the 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the United States Supreme Court will hear Louisiana v.…
Voting Rights
Louisiana Historians Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Allow Congressional Map with Second Majority-Black District
DURHAM, N.C. (Dec. 27, 2024) – A group of historians in Louisiana is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision to…
Voting Rights
Tennessee Advocates Shift Focus After Racial Gerrymandering Case Dismissal
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 26, 2024) — A large coalition of Tennessee voting and civil rights advocates announced Thursday they will not refile litigation related to the alleged racially discriminatory gerrymandering of Congressional and state legislative districts in Tennessee.
Voting Rights
Fifth Circuit Court Rules That Galveston Minority Voting Coalitions Are Not Protected Under Voting Rights Act
NEW ORLEANS, La. (Aug. 2, 2024) — Yesterday, the en banc United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, overruled decades of Voting Rights Act (VRA) precedent to reverse our clients’ redistricting victory in the Petteway v. Galveston County case.
Voting Rights
Galveston Community Stands Together for Review of Redistricting Case
NEW ORLEANS, La. (May 14, 2024) – Today, the en banc hearing in the redistricting case Petteway v. Galveston County concluded. The hearing took place…
Voting Rights
TRIAL RECAP: Advocates, Experts Testify to Inconsistent Florida Redistricting Process
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA (Oct. 9, 2023) – As Common Cause et al. v. Byrd reached its conclusion this week, experts and advocates conveyed a singular message:…
Voting Rights
Civil Rights Groups File Federal Lawsuit to Block Racially Discriminatory Tennessee Redistricting
Nashville, TN (August 9, 2023) — The Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, the African American Clergy Collective of Tennessee, the Equity Alliance, the Memphis…