Campaign Legal Center Archives • Alabama Political Reporter

New voting law won’t take effect until after this year’s election

Alabama's HB100, which adds crimes that revoke voting rights, will not impact this year's election due to constitutional timing guidelines.

August 21, 2024

Deadline passes for public to submit maps for redistricting process

Roughly 80 maps were sent to the committee. But the majority of those maps will not be considered.

July 12, 2023

Misrepresentation of Congressional map at hearing—mistaking or misleading?

The CLC map was not a potential plan, but an example of the state's overreach when drawing district lines.

July 2, 2023

House passes bill criminalizing absentee ballot assistance

The bill carves out some exceptions for family members, but any exchange of money would nullify those exceptions according the the bill's structure.

May 5, 2023

Judge blocks motion to dismiss lawsuit against Merrill over access to purged voter lists

Greater Birmingham Ministries filed the suit, claiming the Secretary of State's Office refused to release the information without charging "exorbitant fees."

June 3, 2022

Alabama Voting Rights Project highlights progress, deficiencies in state voting rights

When many Alabamians are released from jail, they assume they will never gain back their right to vote. The Alabama Voting Rights Project held a press conference in Montgomery on Wednesday during which they highlighted the importance of ensuring voting rights for all Alabamians and recognized achievements across the state in voting rights restoration. In … Continued

March 28, 2019

Civil rights groups support lawsuit challenging Alabama’s Voter ID Law

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, the ACLU Voting Rights Project, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Campaign Legal Center submitted a court brief in support of appealing federal lawsuit challenging Alabama’s voter ID law. Under current Alabama law, a registered voter must … Continued

March 2, 2018

Campaign Legal Center requests investigation of US Senate candidate Roy Moore

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) wrote to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., requesting an immediate investigation into whether U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore failed to declare honoraria earned, liabilities owed, and compensation received on his financial disclosure statement, in … Continued

October 3, 2017

Report: Roy Moore left income off Senate ethics disclosure form

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The Daily Beast reported that U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore appears to have left as much as $150,000 in income off of his Senate financial disclosure forms when it was compared to his state of Alabama ethics disclosure form, which he filed two months earlier. There are also debts on … Continued

September 29, 2017