In March 2024, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed SB 1, a sweeping new voter suppression law that targets, restricts and severely punishes civic engagement efforts to encourage voting and enable access to the ballot box. The following month, a coalition of civil rights, voting rights and disability rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit seeking to…

The Southern Poverty Law Center and its co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit against three Alabama counties for their failure to provide an accessible option for absentee voting by blind and print-disabled voters. Filed on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind in Alabama and four individuals, the lawsuit alleges that Jefferson, Mobile and Tuscaloosa…

After a state commission moved a judgeship from a diverse Jefferson County community to majority-white Madison County, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the move. The lawsuit was filed by voting rights groups on behalf of Tiara Young Hudson, an attorney…

As a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s congressional district map went before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Southern Poverty Law Center and its partners submitted an amicus brief urging the court to affirm a lower court decision that found the map deprived Black Alabamians of their right to elect candidates of their choice to Congress. The amicus…

Alabama resident Angelique Harris attempted to register to vote over the course of several years but was unlawfully denied by her county registrars due to a failure of state law to clarify how out-of-state and federal felony convictions are to be treated for determining voting eligibility. The Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies represent…