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On Election Day, President Donald Trump renewed claims of election fraud — this time targeting California’s mail voting system, calling it “rigged” and threatening a “legal and criminal review” of ballots being cast in the closely watched special election.
This week, Democracy Docket readers were first to learn about three important new developments in Republican voter suppression.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Bill Essayli, a Trump-appointed Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California.
California is preparing to send its own state observers to watch over federal monitors from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.
Another week, another Republican gerrymander rammed through at the expense of minority voters.
Democrats and democracy advocates warn this may be a potential step toward the Trump administration seizing control of voting.
A federal judge in Texas dismissed a GOP lawsuit against California’s new congressional redistricting plan, ruling that the Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), had no right to sue over another state’s election laws.
The resolution cites false data from the anti-voting conspiracy group Unite4Freedom.
The DOJ has now sued eight states to gain access to their private voter data.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton sued California arguing that a ballot measure advanced to counteract GOP gerrymanders nationwide violates state and federal law.