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California called on a federal court to end President Trump’s National Guard deployment in Los Angeles, arguing that the Trump administration is carrying out an “unlawful” and “never-ending” military occupation in the city.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced this week it will consider a challenge to Mississippi’s grace period for mail ballots. A ruling to ban grace periods nationwide could upend mail voting.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion Thursday to intervene in a Republican lawsuit aimed at blocking California’s new congressional map, which was overwhelmingly approved by voters last week.
A federal judge Thursday ruled that two of three criminal charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) can proceed. McIver is the first sitting member of Congress to be criminally prosecuted by the Department of Justice during President Trump’s second term.
A pro-voting group sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), accusing him of launching a retaliation campaign meant to intimidate and suppress Latino voters.
President Donald Trump’s congressional gerrymander sailed through the Missouri legislature in September, but the GOP plan to flip one of the state’s eight districts is far from a done deal.
Georgia’s election board has agreed to stop conducting its business in secret after a settlement with a government watchdog group. The deal represents a major win for transparency as Republican election deniers on the board ramp up efforts to restrict voting ahead of the 2026 election.
Challenges to Trump’s temporary U.S. attorneys continued to mount this week after a government watchdog group state bar associations to investigate Lindsey Halligan, who Trump tapped to prosecute James Comey and Letitia James.
President Trump has broad unreviewable powers to flood U.S. cities with National Guard troops, the Department of Justice argued in an expansive new filing to the Supreme Court.
In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power.