Fall 2026 Legal Intern, Voting Rights Project

<h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The ACLU seeks a&nbsp;<strong>Legal</strong> Intern in the <strong>Voting Rights Project</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>of the ACLU’s National office in&nbsp;<strong>New York City or Washington D.C.&nbsp;</strong>This position may be remote or hybrid. This internship is course credit only.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Qualifying applicants must currently be matriculated legal students and must be based in the U.S. for the entire duration of the internship.</strong></span></p> <h2><strong>The Team:</strong></h2> <p>The ACLU Voting Rights Project was established in 1965 – the same year that the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA) was enacted – and has litigated more than 400 cases since that time. Its mission is to build and defend an accessible, inclusive, and equitable democracy free from racial discrimination. We have three guiding principles: (1) all Americans should be eligible to vote; (2) voting should be free and easy; and (3) all people should count equally. The Project is litigation-focused, with active cases across the country, though it helps support legislative advocacy work and public education. The Voting Rights Project’s recent docket has included more than 40 lawsuits to protect voters during the 2020 and 2024 elections; a pair of recent cases in the Supreme Court challenging the last administration’s discriminatory census policies: <em>Department of Commerce v. New York</em> (successfully challenging an attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census) and <em>Trump v. New York</em> (challenging the exclusion of undocumented immigrants from the population count used to apportion the House of Representatives); challenges to voter purges and documentary proof of citizenship laws; challenges to other new legislation restricting voting rights in states like Georgia, Montana, and Texas; and challenges to unfair redistricting plans in states like Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Mississippi. The Project also helps support voting rights litigation brought by ACLU affiliates across the country. </p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></h2> <p>Interns provide critical support to our team in litigation and other forms of advocacy. In the recent past, interns have served as integral members on our teams doing election protection work and litigating redistricting and voter suppression cases; pushing back against the addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census; working to prevent the Florida legislature from imposing financial barriers that would undermine voter-approved Amendment 4, which re-enfranchised many citizens with felony convictions; and help