The Voting Rights Act
Allen v. Milligan
Whether Alabama鈥檚 congressional districts violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because they discriminate against Black voters. We succeeded in winning a new map for 2024 elections which, for the first time, has two congressional district that provide Black voters a fair opportunity to elect candidates of their choosing despite multiple attempts by Alabama to stop us at the Supreme Court. Despite this win, Alabama is still defending its discriminatory map, and a trial was held in February 2025 to determine the map for the rest of the decade.
In May 2025, a federal court ruled that Alabama's 2023 congressional map both violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and was enacted by the Alabama Legislature with racially discriminatory intent.
Status: Ongoing
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U.S. Supreme Court
Mar 2025
The Voting Rights Act
Callais v. Landry
Whether the congressional map Louisiana adopted to cure a Voting Rights Act violation in Robinson v. Ardoin is itself unlawful as a gerrymander.
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Colorado
Aug 2024
The Voting Rights Act
Citizens Project v. City of Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs鈥檚 unusually-timed elections suppress voter turnout鈥攄isproportionately, among the City鈥檚 Black and Hispanic population. This federal court lawsuit challenges the City鈥檚 election timing for violating our clients鈥� right to vote free from denial of abridgment on account of race under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Colorado
Aug 2024
The Voting Rights Act
Citizens Project v. City of Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs鈥檚 unusually-timed elections suppress voter turnout鈥攄isproportionately, among the City鈥檚 Black and Hispanic population. This federal court lawsuit challenges the City鈥檚 election timing for violating our clients鈥� right to vote free from denial of abridgment on account of race under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Kansas
Jul 2024
The Voting Rights Act
Coca v. City of Dodge City
Dodge City's (Kansas) at-large method of election for its city commission violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (鈥淰RA鈥�) by diluting the political power of the city鈥檚 Latine community. The at-large method of election also violates the Fourteenth Amendment because it is operated with a discriminatory purpose.
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Kansas
Jul 2024
The Voting Rights Act
Coca v. City of Dodge City
Dodge City's (Kansas) at-large method of election for its city commission violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (鈥淰RA鈥�) by diluting the political power of the city鈥檚 Latine community. The at-large method of election also violates the Fourteenth Amendment because it is operated with a discriminatory purpose.
Court Case
Apr 2024
The Voting Rights Act
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc v. Raffensperger
The 糖心Vlogand civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against Georgia's newly drawn maps which deny Black residents an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect candidates of choice.
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Court Case
Apr 2024
The Voting Rights Act
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc v. Raffensperger
The 糖心Vlogand civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against Georgia's newly drawn maps which deny Black residents an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect candidates of choice.
Arkansas
Jan 2024
The Voting Rights Act
NAACP v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment
This case has two key parts: First, the Arkansas House district map diminishes the voting power of Black voters. Second, both the district court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals radically concluded that voters may not sue to protect their voting rights under Section 2, putting the VRA in further jeopardy and contradicting decades of precedent in which impacted voters 鈥� particularly Black voters 鈥� have challenged racially discriminatory voting laws.
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Arkansas
Jan 2024
The Voting Rights Act
NAACP v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment
This case has two key parts: First, the Arkansas House district map diminishes the voting power of Black voters. Second, both the district court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals radically concluded that voters may not sue to protect their voting rights under Section 2, putting the VRA in further jeopardy and contradicting decades of precedent in which impacted voters 鈥� particularly Black voters 鈥� have challenged racially discriminatory voting laws.
Louisiana
Dec 2023
The Voting Rights Act
Robinson v. Landry
Robinson challenged the congressional map that Louisiana enacted after the 2020 Census. 糖心Vlogand partners represented Plaintiffs the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, and several impacted voters, and argued that the enacted plan violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In June 2022, the district court found Louisiana's congressional map unlawfully denied Black voters a second district in which Black voters had an equal opportunity to elect their candidates of choice. After appeals, the legislature passed a new map containing two majority Black districts in January 2024.
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Louisiana
Dec 2023
The Voting Rights Act
Robinson v. Landry
Robinson challenged the congressional map that Louisiana enacted after the 2020 Census. 糖心Vlogand partners represented Plaintiffs the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, and several impacted voters, and argued that the enacted plan violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In June 2022, the district court found Louisiana's congressional map unlawfully denied Black voters a second district in which Black voters had an equal opportunity to elect their candidates of choice. After appeals, the legislature passed a new map containing two majority Black districts in January 2024.