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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Monday the state has removed over one million people from its voter rolls since Republican legislators passed a sweeping voter suppression law three years ago.
An executive order issued in 2021 by President Biden to promote voter registration is still drawing rebuke from GOP-led states in court.
The nation’s most conservative federal appeals court ruled that a coalition of Black and Latino voters who formed a majority-minority district in Galveston County, Texas cannot bring vote-dilution claims under the Voting Rights Act.
Republican attorneys general pose an ongoing threat to democracy as they continue their attempts to weaken the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and more.
The right-wing legal think tank America First Policy Institute filed a lawsuit challenging multiple aspects of a 2021 executive order that expands voting access throughout the country.
In the years since former President Donald Trump attempted to subvert the 2020 presidential election results, the attorneys who aided his efforts are facing the prospect of being banned from practicing law.
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning denied a petition from three Texas voters who asked the justices to take up a case challenging the state’s age-based restrictions on mail-in voting.
A flurry of recently enacted voting and election laws were put to the test during yesterday’s Super Tuesday elections, and the results were a bit of a mixed bag.
Last Friday, the 5th Circuit upheld Texas’ so-called “wet ink signature” law for voter registration, but affirmed that private parties can sue under a consequential Civil Rights Act provision.
Last week, a group of Texas voters filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the state’s age-based restrictions on mail-in voting.