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Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., sought to bring charges against six Democrats for reminding U.S. military and intelligence service members via a video that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. Prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington — led by staunch Trump loyalist and former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro — tried Tuesday […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday complied with a court order to publicly reveal the search warrant affidavit that initiated the FBI’s raid on an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, last month. The document reveals that the search was largely predicated on disinformation and debunked voter fraud claims pushed by private individuals since President […]
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice’s efforts to obtain Michigan’s unredacted voter rolls, a bruising setback for the department’s sweeping national effort to force states to disclose sensitive voter data.
Court filings unsealed by a judge shed new light on Fulton County’s fears about the FBI’s seizure of 2020 ballots. The county argued the raid may undermine voter confidence and fuel false narratives about American elections.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to dramatically restrict mail-in voting nationwide and asking the justices to rule that ballots arriving after Election Day — even if mailed on time under state law — should not be counted. If the Court sides with the RNC, millions of voters who depend […]
A federal judge declined to overrule Republican officials and open early voting sites on three college campuses across North Carolina, including at the United States’ largest historically Black college.
A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use its new, voter-approved congressional map in the 2026 election, clearing the way for Democrats to counter President Donald Trump’s redistricting gains in Texas.
Virginia Democrats’ efforts to counter President Donald Trump’s redistricting gains across the country scored a procedural win Wednesday, when the state court of appeals hurried the case to the state supreme court.
Fulton County in Georgia filed a motion Wednesday demanding that the federal government return all of the 2020 election files seized by the FBI during an extraordinary raid on the county’s main election operations center last week.