FBI went to home of Milwaukee election official as Trump targets 2020 results
An FBI agent visited the home of Milwaukee County’s elections director earlier this week in an attempt to question her, the county clerk has said.
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An FBI agent visited the home of Milwaukee County’s elections director earlier this week in an attempt to question her, the county clerk has said.
The FBI questioned a senior election official in Wisconsin this week about the 2020 presidential election, indicating that the Justice Department may be expanding its efforts to probe and relitigate Trump’s loss.
A Wisconsin court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the state’s congressional map, effectively shutting down any legal path to fairer maps before the 2026 midterms.
The battleground state’s highest court will now have a 5-2 liberal supermajority. This could signal a new future for voting rights.
A surprise retirement from the Wisconsin Supreme Court could reshape the future of voting rights and redistricting in one of the nation’s most closely divided swing states — and potentially give liberals an opportunity to expand their majority on the court.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin filed a disturbing amicus brief urging a federal court to force the Wisconsin Elections Commission to hand over the state’s unredacted voter rolls to Trump’s Justice Department.
A former Trump campaign lawyer who sought to throw out thousands of Wisconsin ballots in 2020 joined the Justice Department’s lawsuit demanding Wisconsin’s full, unredacted voter rolls.
In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls.
Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled Assembly passed the bill in March.
The farcical error is one of numerous recent examples of sloppiness by the department in recent months.
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