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Justice Department filed felony charges against a Democratic congressional candidate in Illinois days after White House officials vowed to go after those who attempt to hold federal immigration agents accountable.
The Ohio Redistricting Commission adopted a new GOP-drawn congressional map as its “working map” without objection Thursday, setting it up for approval Friday.
Louisiana Republicans enacted a law delaying next year’s elections ahead of a looming U.S. Supreme Court decision that could upend the state’s congressional map by weakening the Voting Rights Act’s protections for minority voters.
An Ohio Senator called the resulting bill “an atrocious piece of legislation that will disenfranchise tens of thousands of Ohioans.”
Ohio Democrats may accept a Republican proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts to make two seats slightly more favorable to the GOP next year.
American Oversight is seeking records related to the hiring of Heather Honey, a noted election conspiracy theorist.
States using the Trump administration’s overhauled citizenship verification system to find noncitizens on the voter rolls may be mistakenly flagging eligible voters at an alarming rate, a Texas county election administrator revealed in a federal court filing Wednesday night.
Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post that may have led an armed man to Barack Obama’s home.
A district court block to President Donald Trump’s attempted military deployment in Chicago will stand for at least the next few weeks as the Supreme Court takes up a key question over the president’s ability to federalize the state National Guard.
The Virginia House of Delegates moved one step closer Wednesday to redrawing the state’s congressional map in an effort to counter GOP-controlled states that have gerrymandered this year at President Donald Trump’s request.