A voter intimidation lawsuit against a group falsely claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election is moving forward after a Colorado federal judge declined to dismiss the Voting Rights Act case on standing grounds.
The plaintiffs—affiliates of the NAACP and League of Women Voters, along with Mi Familia Vota—have organizational standing to sue the pro-Trump U.S. Election Integrity Plan and related defendants under the Voting Rights Act, Chief Judge Philip A. Brimmer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado held. These organizations are dedicated in part to protecting voting rights, and they adequately alleged that they were forced to divert resources from their primary activities in order to monitor and combat the defendants’ purportedly unlawful activities, Brimmer said.
The defendant election group disputed NAACP’s standing, arguing that any actions it took were “volitional” and “a product of fear rather than actual injury.”
Brimmer agreed that a “voluntary budgetary decision” isn’t enough to create organizational standing. But here, NAACP claims it has already expended time and money fighting the group’s conduct and has suffered a “drain on resources that could have been used elsewhere,” he said, noting that other courts have found standing in similar circumstances.
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