Jim covers election-related matters at the federal level. He previously reported for CQ Roll Call, WHYY and Philadelphia City Paper. Before journalism, Jim misspent some of his youth as a corporate attorney.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear Republican arguments in defense of Arizona laws that risk disenfranchising eligible voters and make it harder to register.
While appeals and stays are a normal part of civil litigation, this administration has also shown a propensity for going far beyond the usual — and some would say, ethical and legal — bounds of resisting a courtroom loss.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would hold a bipartisan housing affordability bill hostage in another attempt to force the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, his pet legislative project that election experts call “the most restrictive voting bill ever.” Just hours before a scheduled bill signing ceremony, Trump took to social media […]
Republican elected officials and the richest man in the world have embraced rank nativism in the wake of a federal district judge’s decision to block the central pillar of the Trump Administration’s scheme to prosecute the vanishingly few examples of noncitizen voting.
A federal judge in Washington D.C. blocked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using its citizenship database to remove voters from registration rolls, striking a significant blow against President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional attempt to take control of federal elections.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ law that criminalizes helping more than six voters cast ballots. The decision leaves the law in effect and means that individuals in seven states are barred from suing to enforce a provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) aimed at protecting voters with disabilities or who face language barriers.
“No one really disagrees” that President Donald Trump’s recent mail ballot executive order calling for the creation of federal voter registration lists “is flagrantly unlawful,” Democrats argued Wednesday in a filing asking a federal appellate court to block it. They noted that the administration has already taken key steps to implement the order, adding urgency […]
The DOJ is taking aim at the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) 90-day “quiet period” provision, signaling its intention to cancel registrations across the nation in the days leading up to the midterm elections in November.
Despite the president’s statements, there is little reason to believe that Republicans can finally enact a version of the SAVE America Act.
The intervention represents the DOJ’s latest attempt to support Republican voter suppression efforts, a complete reversal of its decades-long defense of voting rights since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.