Norton to Speak at Press Conference as D.C. Residents Sue Federal Government for Voting Rights, Monday

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a press conference as 11 District of Columbia residents file a lawsuit against the United States seeking voting rights in the House and Senate on Monday, November 5, 2018, at 10:00 a.m., outside the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (333 Constitution Ave. NW).

"I am grateful to DC Appleseed and the Harris Wiltshire and Grannis law firm for leading this critical effort in the courts to pursue voting rights for D.C residents," Norton said. "After two centuries of inequality, the District must embrace all strategies at once to get our rights, including our pending D.C. statehood bill and the more than a dozen bills I have introduced encompassing home rule rights, such as legislative autonomy, that Congress could pass now. This brilliant lawsuit not only is consistent with these strategies, but could move the District even closer to equal representation in just a few years. Ahead of the midterm elections when millions of Americans go to the polls to elect their voting members of the House and Senate, we are simply asking for the courts to recognize the same basic democratic rights be granted to the residents of the nation's capital."