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 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.
President Trump’s Justice Department wants a lower court order against the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting rule lifted — even if it means voters would be disenfranchised as a result.
The U.S. Postal Service’s internal watchdog confirmed it is investigating allegations from a whistleblower who warned that the agency’s rushed implementation of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order could disrupt the midterms and prevent voters from receiving ballots.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to lift a lower court order and allow it to use an incomplete federal immigration database to initiate voter registration purges.
U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has opened an investigation into new whistleblower claims that the agency’s haphazard implementation of President Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order could unleash chaos and disenfranchise millions of voters this November, Democratic lawmakers said Friday.
“Unauthorized by the Elections Clause, the Final Rule clashes with Congress’s statutory scheme, and is unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s Elections Clause powers but also that power left to the States,” Talwani wrote Friday.
The Justice Department has sent the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office seven different subpoenas concerning voters over the past three months, the office confirmed to Democracy Docket Friday.
In a win for voters, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled that a constitutional amendment on redistricting proposed by state Democrats can appear on the ballot in November.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court Thursday to lift a temporary court order against the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting restriction as the federal government tries to put Trump’s anti-voting executive order into effect before the midterms.
Two groups representing minority voters in Florida filed a new lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block a pending law that would require voters in the state to prove their citizenship or else lose their right to register to vote and cast a ballot.