Five Questions with Voting Rights Lawyer Danielle Lang

The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is a non-partisan, pro-democracy group that, among other things, does voting rights and election law litigation. The group was founded over 20 years ago, and its first president was Trevor Potter, a former Republican Chair of the Federal Election Commission. The group is a strong advocate for campaign finance reform in addition to its pro-voting work.

Danielle Lang leads CLC's voting rights team. She litigates in state and federal courts and does both trial and appellate work.

Danielle has worked as a civil rights litigator her entire career. At CLC, she led the team challenging both Texas’s racially discriminatory voter ID law and Florida’s efforts to bypass the will of the voters, who wanted to restore voting rights to formerly incarcerated people. She’s worked on too many civil rights cases to list them all, advocating on behalf of low-wage employees and Native Americans, among her many accomplishments. Danielle is a 2012 graduate of Yale Law School and a 2008 graduate of New York University.

Following on the heels of last night’s column on election law litigation and today’s two big decisions, we’re lucky to have her with us tonight! Over the weekend, we’ll take up the Virginia case, where a federal judge ordered that voters removed from the rolls just weeks before the election be restored to them, and the Mississippi case, where the Fifth Circuit rejected Mississippi’s rule that mail ballots postmarked by election day and received up to five business days thereafter could be counted. Danielle writes a Substack, The Only Polls That Count, where she discusses how law and policy are shaping who can vote and how. Tonight we turn our attention to those issues.

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