Maryland governor candidate tries, fails to soften election denier views
Cox’s comments show how some GOP candidates running for state office in November are trying to distance themselves from MAGA’s obsession with the 2020 election.
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Most of Trump DOJ’s voter roll losses have come from GOP-appointed judges
In an era of extraordinary partisan polarization, federal judges appointed by presidents of both parties have found common ground on at least one issue: President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice does not have a right to seize state voter rolls.
Maryland schedules special redistricting session to counter GOP gerrymanders
Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson said that the General Assembly will convene Aug. 3-5 to consider legislation to put a redistricting amendment before voters in November.
Trump DOJ appeals latest wave of losses in languishing voter roll crusade
The Department of Justice appealed three more voter roll losses, ensuring that every defeat in President Donald Trump’s nationwide campaign to obtain unredacted state voter data is now in or headed to the federal appeals courts.
Election denier Dan Cox wins Maryland GOP governor primary
Dan Cox, a far-right election denier who attended President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 rally and built his political brand around false claims about the 2020 election, won Maryland’s Republican primary for governor Tuesday.
DOJ now 0-9 in voter roll cases after Trump-appointed judge tosses its Maryland demand
A federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking Maryland’s statewide, unredacted voter registration list, dealing another blow to President Trump and the department’s sweeping campaign to obtain voter data from the states.
Maryland Democrats prepare special session to counter GOP gerrymanders, send redistricting to voters
Maryland’s top Democrats are reportedly preparing for a possible special session next month to put a redistricting amendment before voters in November, a move that could give the state a new path to answer the nationwide GOP gerrymandering plot pushed by President Donald Trump.
The long game: These are the states where Democrats could redistrict for 2028
In the weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority dismembered the Voting Rights Act through its landmark Louisiana v. Callais ruling, Republicans have raced to pass new gerrymandered congressional maps that eliminate Black political representation across the South.
DOJ’s latest answer on why it wants state voter rolls: ‘I’m not going to get into the details’
The Trump administration struggled to explain exactly how it plans to use the sensitive voter data it is demanding from states across the country, with a government lawyer telling a federal judge in Maryland: “I’m not going to get into the details.”
DOJ civil rights chief requests Maryland retain records regarding mail-in ballot error
The Justice Department civil rights chief has requested that Maryland election officials retain ballots, in response to the mischaracterization of an error as fraud.