The Trump administration is pressuring California to disenfranchise thousands of people it claims are noncitizens after voting has already begun. But the administration has offered scant details on how it drafted a list of people it claims are illegally registered to vote in the Golden State. For a central plank of the administration’s claim — […]
Thousands of eligible voters could be disenfranchised if a federal court grants the Trump administration’s request to bar California from counting the votes of 20,000 people it accuses of being noncitizens, the state says. “At best, this litigation is a reckless political stunt. At worst, it threatens to disenfranchise thousands of Californians this election,” lawyers […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking a federal court to immediately prevent California from counting the ballots of 20,000 people the Trump administration has accused of being noncitizens who illegally registered to vote. The request for a temporary restraining order is the latest escalation between California and the Trump administration over the midterms. California […]
The NAACP sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday in a bid to block the Trump administration from deploying 1,000 poll monitors nationwide during the midterm elections. While the DOJ has historically operated smaller poll monitoring programs to supervise past elections, the NAACP argues the Trump administration is using poll monitoring as a pretext to […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump has turned its Civil Rights Division’s mission on its head, a federal judge said in a decision blocking the administration from demanding states’ unredacted voter rolls. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, a Biden appointee who previously served as the division’s principal deputy assistant attorney general, […]
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) faces a second lawsuit filed by angry voters affected by the protracted legal battle over Republicans’ attempts to impose a gerrymandered congressional map for the midterm elections. The lawsuit is the latest public blow to Hoskins, who was found in contempt by the state Supreme Court for violating […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mounted a failing defense of President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict mail voting after the majority of the Court refused to let the restrictions take effect before the midterms.
Missouri’s Supreme Court held the state’s top election official in contempt Thursday for defying its order not to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm election. The development was the latest embarrassment for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R), after being thwarted in his attempt to force the gerrymander on Missourians. Hoskins entered the […]
In a major win for voters, the U.S. Supreme Thursday temporarily blocked a gerrymandered map that would eliminate a Democratic district in Kansas City while legal challenges are resolved.
Missouri cannot use its gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm elections after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to wade into a purely state matter.
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