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Arlington County, Virginia, sued the Trump administration to stop armed federal agents from operating at and near polling places, arguing that their threatened presence at voting sites is already alarming voters just two weeks before Election Day.
After the Virginia Supreme Court threw out the results of a special election in which voters approved a new map proposed by Democrats, the state will use the same congressional map as in years past.
In November, Virginians will decide whether people who’ve served their time for felony crimes will have their voting rights automatically restored.
The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter’s rights during his entire four-year term.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice appealed its latest batch of defeats Thursday, expanding its nationwide campaign for private voter data into eight federal appeals courts despite losing all 17 district court rulings to date.
According to Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) Trump’s speech was less about foreign interference in U.S. elections, and more about the president’s own interference.
President Donald Trump’s primetime speech Thursday was billed in advance as the moment when he was finally going to provide support for his claims of election theft, and perhaps move to take control of voting once and for all.
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.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) lost its 14th and 15th voter roll cases Tuesday, when federal judges dismissed the government’s lawsuits seeking access to Virginia and New Mexico’s full voter records.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to target Democratic states and counties with a program of federal election monitoring for the primaries, according to new details released by a top DOJ official.
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