In November 2019, Forward Justice filed a lawsuit on behalf of four organizational plaintiffs and six individual plaintiffs in Wake County Superior Court, seeking to reinstate voting rights for nearly 60,000 North Carolinians previously convicted of felonies who have had their right to vote taken away under the unconstitutional felony disenfranchisement law (N.C.G.S. 13-1).
Our plaintiffs allege, and we believe, that this law violates several provisions of the North Carolina Constitution: the free elections clause, the equal protection clause, freedom of speech and assembly, and the ban on property qualifications.