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.
The Justice Department informed a federal court that Homeland Security agents have used Social Security data in an expansive search for voting fraud ahead of the midterm elections, partially confirming a new alarming whistleblower report.
Agents of the Homeland Security Department have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower disclosed to Congress.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to lift a new lower court order completely blocking the U.S. Postal Service from implementing mail voting restrictions that stem from President Trump’s March executive order attacking voting.
The Justice Department told a federal judge Friday it’s appealing a scorching court order against President Trump’s attempt to sue himself to create an almost $2 billion fund for his political allies.
In a recent declaration, the U.S. Postal Service told a federal judge that, during the week of Sept. 6, it expected to launch an online portal that’s crucial to enforcing and complying with its new mail voting restrictions. Where is it?
The Texas Supreme Court blocked Galveston County Republicans from switching local voting maps between the primary and November election, rejecting an unprecedented strategy to maximize partisan advantage at voters’ expense.
In a loss for voters, a federal judge has dismissed a voting rights lawsuit challenging two Indiana laws that require certain voters to provide proof of citizenship to register, or remain registered, to vote.
An Indiana state senator who bucked President Trump’s demand for a gerrymandered congressional map in the state will likely keep his seat after the state Supreme Court Thursday declared him the victor in an extremely close primary race.
Over three dozen election officials — including several Republican secretaries of state — urged the Supreme Court Thursday to uphold a lower court ruling barring the U.S. Postal Service from forcing states to comply with sudden new mail voting regulations this November.
A union representing more than 200,000 postal workers alleged Tuesday that a “catastrophic wholesale non-delivery” of hundreds of thousands of mail ballots will likely occur if states are forced to comply with the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting rule this November.
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