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As it schemes to get President Donald Trump’s executive order attacking mail-in voting past legal challenges, his administration is shifting its approach to creating a national voter registration list.
Florida Republicans urged the state’s highest court to invalidate the state’s voter-approved ban on partisan redistricting and clear the way for the GOP’s gerrymandered congressional map this year.
The Justice Department appealed federal court losses in Maine and Wisconsin Friday, ensuring that every major defeat in its nationwide campaign to obtain state voter registration data is now in or headed to a federal appeals court.
The Trump administration has approved a plan to create a federal voter citizenship verification system for state voter rolls.
A federal judge has approved a settlement agreement between the NAACP Virginia State Conference and the state of Virginia that will make it easier for college students to register to vote and ensure fewer of their registration applications are rejected.
The NAACP asked a federal court Wednesday to stop the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing a Trump-backed rule that could block eligible voters from receiving mail-in ballots — arguing the plan violates a court-enforced settlement that requires USPS to prioritize election mail through 2028.
A lawyer who was active in lawsuits seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and later represented the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, is the latest attorney to be hired by the Trump Department of Justice’s Voting Section, according to court filings reviewed by Democracy Docket.
Metro Atlanta district attorneys sued to block a new Georgia law that would strip party labels from district attorney and other local races in five Democratic-leaning counties, arguing the measure is an unconstitutional attack on Black and Democratic voters.
Democrats and civil-rights advocates are speaking out after the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority delivered a final blow to the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Tuesday when it allowed Alabama to use a congressional map previously found to have discriminated against Black voters.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority erased all doubts about the sweeping nature of its recent voting rights jurisprudence Tuesday night with a shadow docket ruling that effectively reverses the Court’s own decision in the same matter just three years ago.