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A narrow majority of Virginia voters say they support Democrats’ redistricting referendum, with 52% of likely voters saying they’re in favor of the measure, according to new poll results from a Washington Post-Schar School survey.
The sudden firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi triggered an immediate scramble within the right wing to identify her replacement — including a push from MAGA influencers to elevate Harmeet Dhillon.
“It’s a Justice Department that has been decimated,” Kristen Clarke told Democracy Docket. “And its ranks are now being filled by people who’ve never enforced federal laws before.”
At least two separate lawsuits were filed by pro-voting organizations against President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting mail-in voting.
President Trump dismissed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general after growing frustrated with her failure to prosecute his political enemies aggressively enough and for her handling of the Epstein files.
Democrats’ lawsuit to block President Donald Trump’s new anti-voting executive order has been assigned to the federal judge who quickly blocked his last executive order on elections.
The decision represents a setback for crucial efforts to hold accountable those working to undermine fair elections.
Democrats sued to block President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting mail-in voting, calling it unconstitutional and designed to rig elections ahead of the 2026 midterms.
A group linked to tech billionaire Peter Thiel has waded into the Virginia redistricting battle, contributing $2.5 million to the PAC behind controversial GOP mailers.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Idaho after the state refused to hand over sensitive voter registration data — the latest example of resistance to the Trump administration’s voter roll crusade extending into strongly Republican states.