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A conservative legal group with a long record of attacking voting rights filed a lawsuit against California’s Proposition 50, seeking to block the state’s voter-approved congressional map.
The Justice Department launched a new wave of lawsuits against six more Democratic-led states Tuesday — escalating a federal effort to seize unredacted information from millions of voters.
Alina Habba, a former personal attorney to President Trump, has been unlawfully serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor for months, an appeals court panel unanimously ruled Monday.
A federal court ruled Wednesday that North Carolina’s new congressional gerrymander — pushed by President Donald Trump to give Republicans another U.S. House seat — can be used for the 2026 elections.
With a contempt inquiry looming, the Justice Department named Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the Trump official who earlier this year approved the transfer of hundreds of people from the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran megaprison after a judge forbade the removals.
Rather than work to win public support for the map, Republicans are deploying every conceivable tactic to stop Missourians from voting on the gerrymander, which GOP lawmakers passed earlier this year at President Donald Trump’s request.
“College students can just roll out of bed, vote, and get back into bed,” Cleta Mitchell said, falsely claiming that “students are going to vote 95 percent [for] one party.”
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a sweeping new lawsuit in Michigan that seeks to eliminate a state law that protects voting access for U.S. citizens living abroad.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an amicus brief Monday supporting Texas’ gerrymandered congressional map, boldly claiming that the much-maligned letter it sent urging state leaders to redistrict was not, in fact, the reason why Texas redrew its map immediately after receiving the letter.
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the prosecutor President Donald Trump handpicked to bring charges against them had been unlawfully serving since September.