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.
Caving to MAGA hardliners, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the House will pass the SAVE America Act, President Trump’s massive voter suppression bill, “one more time” through a budget reconciliation process.
As courts continue to block his efforts to take control of elections through presidential decree, President Trump is doubling down on turning the country’s most prominent law enforcement and intelligence agencies against U.S. elections.
Behind Republicans’ meltdown over the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling is a desire to remake the Court to overturn precedent.
Though the Supreme Court may have struck down President Trump’s executive order attacking birthright citizenship Tuesday, the razor-thin majority that ruled against the president gave legal scholars and immigration advocates little cause for celebration.
The Supreme Court Tuesday struck down President Trump’s attempt to unilaterally deny citizenship to children born in the United States to foreign nationals, a plan that would have sharply altered who can vote in American elections.
The Supreme Court’s rejection of the GOP’s attempt to upend mail voting Monday marked a major win not only for the millions of Americans who vote by mail but also for the millions of other people who cast their ballots in person at early voting sites.
In a dissenting opinion Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor denounced the Supreme Court for upending almost a century of precedent while granting President Trump power to shape the federal government through arbitrary dismissals.
The Supreme Court upended nearly a century of legal precedent Monday by formally endorsing President Donald Trump’s dismissal of the last Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission.
The New York poll worker who was recently confronted by ICE agents says she’s exploring legal options, in defense of the safety of all poll workers.
President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict the vote ran headlong into a legal brick wall, as judge after judge ruled against his sweeping anti-voting executive orders and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to seize control over elections from the states.