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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.
“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.
Republicans are trying to strike down the VRA’s Section 2 the same way they dismantled Section 5. Here’s how it’s different.
Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of Trump’s second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch.
As a GOP candidate is seeking to overturn his election loss, the future of the North Carolina Supreme Court’s composition — and free and fair elections more broadly — hangs in the balance.
We aren’t yet in a constitutional crisis but the Trump administration is certainly hinting towards one.
Since Trump returned to the White House, the Elon Musk-led faux agency DOGE has been hit with a slew of lawsuits.
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