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On Sunday, May 21, the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Arizona announced a settlement agreement in a lawsuit challenging drop box monitoring practices by Melody Jennings and her organization (then known as Clean Elections USA) during the 2022 midterm elections.
On Thursday, May 18, the U.S. Senate voted 49-47 to confirm Nancy G. Abudu to a lifetime appointment as a judge on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
On Wednesday, May 17, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision compelling four Republican members of the Texas Legislature to produce documents related to Texas’ omnibus voter suppression law, Senate Bill 1.
On Wednesday, May 17 — 191 days after Election Day — election denier Kari Lake was back in the courtroom contesting her loss to Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) in the 2022 election
On Tuesday, May 16, voters in Pennsylvania nominated two candidates for the state’s open Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Democratic Chief Justice Max Baer in October 2022.
On Tuesday, May 16, a group of U.S. Senate and House Democrats reintroduced the Judiciary Act of 2023, a bill that would add four seats to the U.S. Supreme Court, bringing the bench from nine to 13 justices.
On Monday, May 15, U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas), Texas House members and local county officials in Fort Worth-area Tarrant County, Texas asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate officials in Tarrant County “to end the pattern…of voter intimidation and harassment.”
On Monday, May 15, an Arizona judge ruled that Republican election denier Kari Lake’s six month-long election contest regarding her loss in the 2022 Arizona governor’s race will go to trial on one claim.
On Monday, May 15, a Mississippi judge dismissed a state-level lawsuit challenging House Bill 1020, a recently enacted law that targets Jackson’s majority-Black population.
On Thursday, Feb. 2, the Missouri House passed a proposal to raise the threshold for constitutional amendments to 60%.