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Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has made almost daily sweeping but dubious claims of power that threaten fundamental principles, like the right to due process, the separation of powers and free and fair elections.
The GOP bill, a direct product of President Donald Trump’s decade-long obsession with illegal voting, would require documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration, bar states from counting late-arriving mail ballots, and dramatically infringe on states’ authority to run elections.
The North Carolina appeals court’s decision in Republican challenges against incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory in the state’s Supreme Court race last year is “like dropping a match in a really dry forest.,” she told Democracy Docket in an interview Friday.
Republicans are taking a very different approach to President Trump’s executive order on voting than they did for President Biden’s.
“It feels like whatever the SCOTUS ruling is, this is just going to be a sort of an ongoing, non-stop battle.”
Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has many times outlined his extreme vision for U.S. elections.
The D.C. District Court has handed President Donald Trump three losses in a row by ruling that he violated federal laws in firing the heads or board members of independent agencies. But the legal battle over the dismissals is just beginning.
Billionaire Elon Musk in recent weeks has raged in a blizzard of social media posts at federal judges who have ruled against his efforts to disembowel the government and executive orders issued by President Donald Trump.
Trump’s pending USPS executive order could potentially allow his administration to make mail voting more difficult.
Republicans are trying to strike down the VRA’s Section 2 the same way they dismantled Section 5. Here’s how it’s different.
