Jacob is a reporter at Democracy Docket and covers anti-Trump accountability litigation. He is from South Dakota and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, English and political science from Augustana University. Before joining Democracy Docket, he covered breaking news at Axios.
Postmaster General David Steiner told senators that, under a new proposed rule, the U.S. Postal Service will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump said he directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to probe California elections as early results showed his preferred candidate trailing in the state’s recent gubernatorial primary. Tuesday’s admission, which Trump made at a political rally in Macungie, Pennsylvania, is the clearest evidence yet of Trump’s weaponization of the department to interfere in […]
Secretaries of state in statements to Democracy Docket condemned the Trump administration’s latest reported attempt to exert control over elections by withholding homeland security funds from states unless they adopt draconian changes to their election procedures.
A federal judge blocked multiple Justice Department subpoenas against top Minnesota Democratic leaders, including Gov. Tim Walz, ruling they were meant to “harass, coerce, and retaliate” against those who opposed President Trump’s aggressive immigration efforts across the state earlier this year.
A federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking Maryland’s statewide, unredacted voter registration list, dealing another blow to President Trump and the department’s sweeping campaign to obtain voter data from the states.
Arizona judges blocked a lower court order that took election duties away from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and assigned them to county Recorder Justin Heap, an election denier who has pushed conspiracy theories about voting in the state.
A federal judge in Massachusetts said Democratic state attorneys general and pro-voting organizations can continue to challenge President Trump’s sweeping executive order attacking mail voting before the midterm elections.
Federal judges appeared skeptical in a hearing Thursday of pro-voting groups’ arguments that Tennessee Republicans intentionally diluted Black voting power through their recent aggressive gerrymander.
President Trump said he would seek to delay the Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton, his nominee for director of national intelligence, in yet another attempt to pressure lawmakers into passing the SAVE America Act, a massive anti-voting bill.
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are trying to ban state election officials from publicly encouraging people to vote, part of a massive proposed overhaul of elections that a state legislative committee approved Tuesday.
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