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The Texas Supreme Court denied an emergency effort to stop Galveston County from using newly drawn voting districts in the November election, allowing the Republican-led county’s unprecedented post-primary map switch to move forward for now.
A federal judge rejected a Republican attempt to eliminate a Black-majority local judicial district in Mississippi, ruling that it was too close to the November election to make the change.
A federal court in Nevada became the 22nd consecutive district court to reject the Trump administration’s campaign to force states to turn over their unredacted voter rolls, dismissing the Department of Justice’s case and denying its motion to compel.
The full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s request to reconsider a ruling that denied the Department of Justice’s demand for Michigan’s unredacted statewide voter file — handing DOJ another major setback in its nationwide voter roll crusade.
A federal court will decide at an upcoming hearing whether Mississippi can move forward for now with a gerrymandered GOP map for its 2027 elections without waiting for input from a district court or the legislature.
A federal appeals court overturned a ruling that had blocked key parts of Texas’ sweeping voter suppression law, allowing those provisions to remain in effect despite a lower court’s finding that they violated federal protections for voters with disabilities.
A Nebraska court Wednesday rejected the Republican National Committee’s lawsuit seeking to block certain U.S. citizens abroad from voting in the state, handing the national GOP another major loss in its escalating legal campaign against overseas voters. Lancaster County District Court Judge Ryan Post denied the RNC’s motion for summary judgment and dismissed the complaint […]
The RNC sued Michigan in June to overturn guidance issued in October 2024 limiting the number of poll challengers at each voting location.
Minnesota’s Supreme Court upheld a state requirement that mail voters have a witness sign their ballot, an additional step pro-voting groups argued could disenfranchise some voters.
In a supplemental brief Wednesday, the Department of Justice urged the Court to not only shelve the permanent injunction that U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued in June — which barred the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing the order Trump’s March 2026 decree in the 23 states (and Washington, D.C.) that had sued to block it — but also the preliminary, nationwide injunction Talwani handed down Tuesday in a separate case brought by voting groups led by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.
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