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.
Now that Trump’s approval ratings are hitting historic lows five months before the midterms, many are expecting a blue wave come November. And some Democrats are looking to undo the damage already done and prevent it from happening again.
President Donald Trump and the GOP are falsely claiming fraud over mail ballots in California’s primary. The lies are aimed at setting the stage to undermine this fall’s crucial midterms, when control of the House could hinge on the Golden State.
As it schemes to get President Donald Trump’s executive order attacking mail-in voting past legal challenges, his administration is shifting its approach to creating a national voter registration list.
Will Becerra — a former longtime congressman and former state attorney general who served as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary under former President Joe Biden — follow in Newsom’s footsteps to ensure that the Golden State leads the resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism?
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority erased all doubts about the sweeping nature of its recent voting rights jurisprudence Tuesday night with a shadow docket ruling that effectively reverses the Court’s own decision in the same matter just three years ago.
Empire State Democrats have mapped out their plans to rewrite the state constitution to allow for a new congressional map ahead of the 2028 elections that could net the party four additional U.S. House seats.
The U.S. Postal Service said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government.
The Louisiana Senate voted 28-10 to eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black congressional seats Friday, sending the remapping bill to Gov. Jeff Landry (R) for signing.
The Louisiana House voted 66-35 to eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black congressional seats.
Louisiana suspended an ongoing congressional election to draft and enact a new electoral map eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black districts barely a month after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out its old one in Callais v. Louisiana. But that’s neither fast enough or far enough for the “non-African American” plaintiffs in Callais.