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 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.
Local election officials in Upstate New York said they were frustrated and alarmed by two federal immigration agents confronting a poll worker over a social media post at a voting site in Syracuse during the state’s primaries earlier this week.
Two federal immigration agents confronted a poll worker at a voting site in Syracuse, New York, as she was helping carry out the state’s recent elections. The incident again raises the specter of federal agents interfering in active elections.
A federal judge in Massachusetts Thursday blocked federal agencies from implementing President Trump’s sweeping executive order attacking mail voting before the midterm elections.
The postmaster general’s testimony Wednesday on the Postal Service’s new proposal cracking down on mail voting sparked alarm among lawmakers, election officials and Postal Service advocates.