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.
A top lawyer for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) defended the state’s election procedures in a message to the Justice Department, after it threatened to target election officials with criminal prosecutions over possible noncitizen voting.
A Kansas court began hearing a challenge to a GOP-backed law that could make it more difficult for voters to cast a mail ballot in the state if it goes into effect.
Voting and cybersecurity experts strongly pushed back on President Trump’s assertions in a speech Thursday night that China accessed U.S. voter registration data.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced that the Trump administration would continue to withhold election security support from states unless they use a faulty federal database to maintain their voter rolls.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened top election officials in all 50 states and D.C. with criminal charges if they do not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to feed their voter rolls through a flawed federal database.
In a tirade against elections Thursday night, President Donald Trump ordered FBI Director Kash Patel to reopen an investigation into long-debunked anti-voting claims against a voter registration drive in Michigan in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
President Trump may use a primetime address tonight to crack down on the use of electronic voting machines, perhaps by ordering the decertification of machines over alleged vulnerabilities.
A Kansas court temporarily blocked a state law that would disqualify late-arriving mail ballots in the first ruling since the Supreme Court rejected a GOP challenge to grace periods for mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. Ruling in favor of Kansas voting rights groups* Thursday, a Douglas County judge found that the law likely […]
Jay Clayton, who President Trump tapped for director of national intelligence, repeatedly declined to clearly state who won the 2020 election during his confirmation hearing Wednesday.
In his confirmation hearing for attorney general, Todd Blanche claimed he would “follow the law” on sending armed federal agents to voting sites but pointedly stopped short of pledging not to deploy them.