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Julie Ebenstein

Former Senior Staff Attorney

Voting Rights Project, ACLU

Bio

Julie was a senior staff attorney with the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµVoting Rights Project. Since 2013, she has litigated voting rights matters across the country, including challenges to felony disenfranchisement in Florida and Iowa; discriminatory voter suppression laws in North Carolina; at-large school board elections in Ferguson, Missouri; dual voter registration systems in Kansas; and election officials’ rejection of absentee ballots based on voters’ signatures in California and New Hampshire. Leading up to the 2012 general election, Julie was a staff attorney with the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµof Florida and counsel in several voting rights cases.

She has written and testified on the detrimental effect of criminal disfranchisement laws and the intersection of over-criminalization, prison gerrymandering, and voting rights dilution.

Before joining the ACLU, Julie focused on refugee protection issues, working first with the International Rescue Committee on the Thailand-Myanmar border, then with Lawyers for Human Rights in South Africa.

Julie is a graduate of Columbia University and Fordham University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in New York and Florida.


Featured work

Jul 29, 2016

Victory: North Carolina Legislators Won’t Be Able to Suppress the Vote This Election

Victory: North Carolina Legislators Won’t Be Able to Suppress the Vote This Election

Jun 30, 2016

Time Served for a Non-Violent Drug Offense? Sorry, You Still Can’t Vote if You Live in Iowa

Time Served for a Non-Violent Drug Offense? Sorry, You Still Can’t Vote if You Live in Iowa

Jan 12, 2016

Ferguson School District on Trial

Ferguson School District on Trial

Aug 13, 2015

Protecting Democracy in an Era of Voter Suppression

Protecting Democracy in an Era of Voter Suppression

Jul 30, 2015

North Carolina’s Step Backward for Democracy

North Carolina’s Step Backward for Democracy

Apr 6, 2015

Discrimination Is Written Into the Fabric of Ferguson’s Government

Discrimination Is Written Into the Fabric of Ferguson’s Government

Nov 17, 2014

For Some Convicted of Drug Offenses, the Punishment Never Ends

For Some Convicted of Drug Offenses, the Punishment Never Ends

Feb 14, 2014

Millions of Americans Are Cut Out of Our Democracy

Millions of Americans Are Cut Out of Our Democracy

Dec 11, 2013

One Man, One Vote: Nelson Mandela on Voting Rights

One Man, One Vote: Nelson Mandela on Voting Rights

Oct 25, 2013

Voter Suppression is a Badder, Broader, More Bigoted Problem Than Just This Guy

Voter Suppression is a Badder, Broader, More Bigoted Problem Than Just This Guy