CLEVELAND, OH ‒ Although the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Evenwel v. Abbott is a win for voting rights advocates, the fact remains that states across the country have been passing restrictive voting laws since the Court’s 2013 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, which gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act. On Wednesday, the Northeast Ohio Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society will host a Voting Rights Institute training session to address the many remaining gaps in access to the ballot box.
The Voting Rights Institute (VRI) is a joint project of the American Constitution Society, the Campaign Legal Center and Georgetown University Law Center. The VRI educates attorneys about the best practices of voting rights advocacy and provides resources for litigating voting rights cases through its website, www.votingrightsinstitute.org. The web site also provides information to the public about voter ID laws and other voting restrictions, as well as a tool to report voting rights violations.
Wednesday’s VRI event in Cleveland will be conducted by some of the biggest names in voting rights advocacy and will include discussion of recent challenges to Ohio’s voting laws.
WHO:
- Gerry Hebert, executive director and director of litigation, Campaign Legal Center; former acting chief, Voting Section, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
- Leah Aden, assistant counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Donita Judge, project director and senior attorney, Advancement Project
- Don McTigue, managing attorney, McTigue & McGinnis LLC
WHEN: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 12:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Squire Patton Boggs, 4900 Key Tower, 127 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 44114
This event is open to members of the media. To RSVP, please email Nanya Springer, Associate Director of Communications, atnspringer@acslaw.org.
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is the nation’s leading progressive legal organization. In its 15th year, ACS has a nationwide network of lawyers, law students, scholars, judges, policymakers and other concerned individuals dedicated to making the law a force to improve lives of all people. For more information about the organization or to locate one of the more than 200 lawyer and law student chapters in 48 states, please visit www.acslaw.org.
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