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The fight over the NVRA’s quiet period goes beyond one state law or lawsuit. It is a fight over whether eligible voters will have meaningful protection from being wrongly removed from the rolls at the moment when the consequences are hardest to undo.
Legal experts, voting rights advocates, and even the VRA’s loudest foes all agree with Justice Elena Kagan: “[I]n fact, those ‘updates’ eviscerate the law.”
Has checking Trump’s attacks kept democracy defenders too busy to launch legal counter offensives against voter suppression laws?
Among other steps that President Donald Trump will take to undermine a fair election this fall, he’ll likely use the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to bring a flood of litigation aiming to challenge Democratic wins and shape the rules in the GOP’s favor.
Facing mounting setbacks to their nationwide gerrymanders, Republicans are dusting off a fringe legal theory to block voter referendums, court-ordered maps, and other democratic safeguards that threaten their edge.
Thousands of North Carolina students do not have easy access to on-campus voting sites this primary season because of a state election board decision. But students are still rallying to get out the vote.
Utah Republicans’ plan to repeal the state’s gerrymandering ban in order to grab another congressional seat isn’t going as well as they hoped.
The comments raise new questions about how closely DHS worked with right-wing groups seeking to challenge state election systems, and underscore concerns about some of those same groups now having access to government databases.
President Donald Trump’s redistricting arms race is wreaking havoc across the country, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. But in Missouri, the fight has grown into something that threatens to cut democracy to the bone.
From trying to unilaterally reinterpret the Constitution to attempting to usurp states’ authority over elections, President Trump’s relentless, extreme attacks on our democracy have generated an avalanche of legal challenges. Here are the crucial legal challenges to Trump we’re watching closely in the new year.
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