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A new deal to settle a lawsuit brought by the Trump administration against the North Carolina State Board of Elections suggests neither side is looking out for voters, pro-voting groups argued Wednesday in a court filing.
The Department of Justice sued Orange County, California Wednesday. Just a day before, county election administrators offered to work with them while protecting voter privacy.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. earlier this year, is set to remain in jail for a few more days as his attorneys and federal prosecutors determine whether he’ll be deported if released.
The Department of Justice Tuesday sued every federal district judge in Maryland to challenge a standing court order that temporarily bars the government from deporting people after they have filed a challenge.
Nearly 100,000 North Carolina voters will be required to take an additional step to verify their identity or risk being disenfranchised under a plan approved by the GOP-controlled state board of elections.
Emil Bove, a senior Department of Justice official, suggested the department should tell courts “f*** you” and ignore their orders to carry out President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportations, according to a whistleblower complaint by a former DOJ attorney.
Earlier this month, Virginia became the tenth state to join AVID, but it lacks anything close to the sophistication of the ERIC.
The Supreme Court Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from with minimal notice.
Trump’s call for a special prosecutor comes after FBI Director Kash Patel said that he gave files related to 2020 election interference over to Congress.
A federal judge ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. earlier this year and imprisoned in El Salvador, should not be detained pending trial on immigrant smuggling charges.