Press Releases

Wicomico Voters, Civil Rights Organizations Celebrate Voting Rights Victory Decades in the Making

After decades of struggle and advocacy, Wicomico County’s Black voters and civil rights organizations closed out Black History Month 2025 with a history-making victory of their own.

Nonpartisan Voting Rights Organizations Unite to Provide Hotlines, Resources, and Rides to the Polls

Everyone Votes Maryland and Expand the Ballot, Expand the Vote Coalition includes ACLU, Common Cause, NAACP, League of Women Voters, Disability Rights Maryland, League of Conservation Voters, Life After Release, Maryland Justice Project and more

Landmark Settlement, with Sweeping Array of Restorative Measures, Unveiled in Historic Federalsburg Voting Rights Case

Adding reconciliation to history-making election reform, a landmark settlement was announced today in a federal lawsuit that challenged 200 years of discrimination against Black voters in the Town of Federalsburg.

ACLU’s 2024 Legislative Priorities: Racial Justice Marijuana Reform, PAB Independent Investigatory Powers, Voting Rights, and Children’s Right to a Lawyer

The ACLU priorities for the 2024 Session of the General Assembly are removing criminal penalties for marijuana, enacting independent investigatory powers for Police Accountability Boards, passing a Maryland Voting Rights Act, and defending the right of children to a lawyer.

Black Residents Challenge as Racially Discriminatory and Unlawful Wicomico’s Voting System for County Council and School Board

Black voters and local organizations filed suit today in federal district court in Baltimore under the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, challenging that the at-large component of the election system for the County Council and Board of Ed are racially discriminatory and limit fair represention.

Black Voters, Advocates Challenge Election System in Eastern Shore Town Shamefully Marking Bicentennial with Continued All-White Government

Seven Black voters joined today with the Caroline County Branch of the NAACP and the Caucus of African American Leaders to file suit in federal district court in Baltimore under the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Common Cause, League of Women Voters, PIRG, ACLU Applaud Ruling Upholding Timely Election Results from Maryland State Board of Elections 

Montgomery County Judge Bonifant ruled in favor of a petition put forward by the Maryland State Board of Elections to enable pre-processing of mail-in ballots for the November general elections.