Virginia Kase Solomon is the president and CEO of Common Cause, the government accountability and voting rights organization founded in 1970. She became its tenth president in February 2024, after serving as CEO of the League of Women Voters from 2018 to 2024. She began her career by co-founding a youth organization in Connecticut that advocated for job and education opportunities. She later worked in immigrant rights advocacy in Maryland. She was chief operating officer of CASA, the immigrant rights organization, and received the Hispanic Heritage Award for Leadership in 2019.
We have documented 1 statement by Virginia Kase Solomon, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.
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Role at the time: President and CEO of Common Cause, a plaintiff in the lawsuit
Condemned
Statement summary
Common Cause President and CEO Virginia Kase Solomon said that putting armed officers in polling places is a tactic used by dictators and that no American should have to walk past armed federal law enforcement to cast a ballot. She said the administration has adopted a policy that allows this.
“Putting armed officers in polling places is a tactic used by dictators, but we won’t be scared out of exercising our rights
No American should ever have to walk past armed federal law enforcement just to cast a ballot, yet this administration has adopted a policy that allows exactly that.”
Read the official statement (opens in a new tab)New Lawsuit Challenges Trump-Vance Administration Plan to Send Armed ICE Officers Into Polling PlacesSixth paragraph of the release, the quotation attributed to Common Cause President & CEO Virginia Kase Solomon
Why we used this label
The case records responses to the administration's stated or threatened use of ICE and other armed federal agents at or near polling places. Kase Solomon said putting armed officers in polling places is a tactic used by dictators and that no American should have to walk past armed federal law enforcement to cast a ballot. That expressly rejects the practice, so we labeled it Condemned.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says ICE would go to polling places only for a threat or a warrant, and DHS says ICE is not planning operations targeting them but arrests could follow a threat. Three lawsuits allege that position violates federal law.
