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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.
A federal judge said it’s too soon to block President Donald Trump’s latest push to restrict mail voting ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Jones was responding to David Shafer, the former Georgia GOP Party chairman who conspired with Trump in 2020 to de-certify the state’s election results.
Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to let it use racially gerrymandered maps that courts have found were drawn with intentional racial discrimination.
Ken Paxton played a leading role in an outrageous legal effort on behalf of President Donald Trump to undo the results of the 2020 presidential contest.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to move faster to fulfill an information request from Democrats seeking documents detailing possible plans to deploy immigration agents or military personnel to the polls this fall.
The Southern Poverty Law Center asked a federal judge to toss out criminal fraud charges filed against it by the Justice Department, arguing that the case is part of a “top-down, retributive campaign” by President Trump.
Rep. Chip Roy’s loss emphasizes Trump’s continued sway over the GOP and his willingness to exact revenge against Republicans who defy him.
Texas AG Ken Paxton has been a vocal and early supporter of a plan to sideline the filibuster to allow the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act.
A judge appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has cleared the way for Florida to use its new congressional map — drawn by DeSantis’ office — in the 2026 midterm elections, despite what plaintiffs called “staggering” evidence that it violates the state’s voter-approved ban on partisan gerrymandering.