Matt is a senior reporter covering elections, voting rights and threats to democracy. He’s covered far-right extremism, dark money and state and local elections as an investigative reporter at The American Independent and Mother Jones. Prior to reporting on politics, Matt cut his teeth as a local reporter in D.C. at the Washington City Paper and DCist.
A federal judge ruled Monday that Pennsylvania must count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots, finding that a previous law rejecting such ballots violated the First and 14th Amendments.
It’s the fifth Biden-era DOJ pro-voting lawsuit that’s been dropped under President Donald Trump.
The race has become the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history.
Vote by mail has long been a thorn in Trump’s side and his new order seeks to kneecap it altogether.
After President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that experts said could potentially disenfranchise millions, Democratic election officials and voting rights advocates swiftly vowed to fight it.
SCOTUS heard oral argument in a pivotal Louisiana redistricting case that could upend the VRA.
“It’s time for this election to come to an end and for voters to know that their votes will count in the state, that they follow the rules in place at the time of the election.”
“It feels like whatever the SCOTUS ruling is, this is just going to be a sort of an ongoing, non-stop battle.”
The letter was signed by a bipartisan coalition of more than 200 former justices, judges and attorneys.
A three-judge panel will hear Jefferson Griffin’s case on March 21.