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.
Cities and counties across the U.S. sued the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday over its attempt to leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states to adopt a slate of anti-voting measures.
Less than a week after Senate Republicans confirmed him as U.S. attorney general, Todd Blanche spoke at a political rally and appeared to endorse a Republican candidate for New York governor — a move that further politicizes the country’s top law enforcement role.
The Trump administration carried out a sprawling months-long surveillance operation in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota as it sought to crack down on resistance to its aggressive immigration raids across the state, defense attorneys alleged in new court filings.
Tad Jude, a former Minnesota state representative who has called for imposing new restrictions on voting in the state, won the Republican primary for Secretary of State.
In a win for voters, appeals court judges upheld a lower court ruling that permanently blocked a Republican-backed South Dakota law that would have made it harder for citizens to put new laws or constitutional changes directly on the ballot.
President Trump signaled Tuesday he’s willing to declare a national security emergency in an attempt to take over American elections.
The staff of a bipartisan agency created to help states administer elections released a memo detailing what the agency can and can’t do after President Trump abruptly ousted its leadership last month.
Republicans confirmed Todd Blanche as U.S. attorney general, formally placing one of Trump’s staunchest loyalists at the helm of the Justice Department.
A Republican-dominated panel met for the first time Friday in Georgia to lay out the next steps in a monthslong process to propose a new voting system for the state.
Marsha Blackburn, one of the most fervently anti-voting voices in the Senate, won Tennessee’s Republican gubernatorial primary Thursday, likely sending her to the governor’s mansion in the deep-red state this November.