Overview We represent members of the North Carolina General Assembly defending North Carolina’s 2018 voter-identification law against federal- and state-court challenges under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Constitution, and the North Carolina Constitution.

Overview We successfully represented six plaintiffs, including the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Majority Leader of the Virginia Senate, in a challenge to the Governor of Virginia’s en masse restoration of voting rights to convicted fellons. The principal issue in this litigation was the scope of the Governor’s clemency power. After expedited briefing and oral argument, the Supreme Court of Virginia agreed with us that the text and history of Virginia Constitution’s prohibited the Governor from restoring voting rights en masse.

Overview We successfully represented the Governor-Elect of Puerto Rico in a recount dispute in connection with the 2004 elections. The opposing candidate for governor challenged the validity of several thousand ballots. Although the district court ruled in favor of the opposition candidate, the First Circuit reversed and ruled in favor of our client, who became the Commonwealth’s governor.

Overview We represented the Reapportionment Board of Alaska, which is responsible for that State’s redistricting, with respect to the Voting Rights Act and constitutional issues involved in that process. In that regard, we successfully urged the Justice Department to approve the Board’s state legislative redistricting, over the objections of several Native Alaskan groups alleging minority vote dilution.

Overview The City of Augusta, Georgia, and Richmond County, Georgia, retained us to seek a declaratory judgment granting Section 5 approval to a proposed plan consolidating the county and city governments, notwithstanding a prior Section 5 objection to the plan by the Department of Justice. We were also retained by the State of Georgia to assist it in obtaining Section 5 approval of electoral changes involving state judges.