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.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyers have told a court that the agency may have thousands of documents relevant to Democrats’ demand for the Trump administration’s possible plans to deploy immigration agents at the polls this fall.
President Trump is expected to take to the airwaves Thursday to again push false claims of widespread voting fraud during the 2020 election, citing soon-to-be-declassified intelligence information purporting to show irregularities and vulnerabilities in voting machines.
President Trump and his two eldest sons’ $10-billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was brought for “an improper purpose,” a Florida-based federal judge ruled. The judge also recommended attorney sanctions for the Trumps’ lawyers.
A federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking New York’s unredacted statewide voter registration list, delivering another blow to President Trump’s effort to seize sensitive voter registration data.
President Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission, a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections.
In sending election monitors to states as part of Trump’s crackdown on voting, the DOJ is attempting to exercise a power conservatives have tried to curtail for years.
When Harmeet Dhillon, the Department of Justice (DOJ) civil rights chief, announced that her agency would be sending election monitors to 15 jurisdictions in six states during the 2026 primaries, she was quick to note that previous Democratic administrations have likewise sent observers to monitor primaries.
The Arizona Supreme Court has given Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, an election skeptic who has pushed conspiracy theories about voting in the state, increased authority to shape elections in the county.
A federal judge blocked the Justice Department’s demands for the identities and personal information of thousands of people who helped run the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, calling the request “unreasonable.”
A group of pro-voting and privacy organizations that are suing the Department of Homeland Security have pushed back on the government’s latest bid to retrofit a federal database to purge voters from registration rolls.
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