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.
In his State of the Union address, President Trump demanded that Congress pass the most restrictive anti-voting bill in U.S. history, the SAVE America Act. But he also exaggerated the bill’s provisions, saying it would impose even more severe restrictions on voting than it actually would.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a federal court Tuesday that he will appeal a blistering court order against his effort to demote Sen. Mark Kelly for reminding troops in a video last year that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders.
President Trump accelerated his assault on the federal judiciary Thursday by accusing “certain” Supreme Court justices of being “unpatriotic and disloyal” by striking down most of his tariffs.
During a rambling rehash of false assertions of voter fraud, President Trump claimed that Republicans will never lose an election “for 50 years” if his allies in Congress pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act America Act, which critics have called the most restrictive anti-voting law in U.S. history.
A county judge in Virginia has blocked voters from deciding whether Democrats can redraw the state’s congressional map to counter mid-decade partisan GOP gerrymanders in other states.
The search warrant affidavit that initiated the FBI’s unprecedented raid on an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, last month failed to provide evidence that a crime had been committed and relied on “a smorgasbord of witness speculation” from biased sources, county officials alleged in a new court filing Tuesday.
A group of civil rights organizations including the NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law have asked a federal court to protect voters’ personal information after the FBI seized ballots and other election materials during a raid on a Fulton County, Georgia election hub last month.
Todd Lyons, the acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, admitted to senators Thursday that federal immigration officers would have “no reason” to be at voting locations this November.
Federal judges selected Donald Kinsella, a veteran litigator, as the top federal prosecutor in Upstate New York to replace a Trump appointee who was disqualified from the role. But just hours later, the White House fired him.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) First Amendment rights by moving to strip him of his retired military rank for reminding troops in a video last year that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders, a federal judge ruled Thursday.