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The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R) of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (D).
A coalition of pro-voting groups is suing Indiana over two new anti-voting laws they say unfairly target naturalized citizens and threaten to remove eligible voters from the rolls.
Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 (SB 202) has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state.
Former FBI Director James Comey Monday asked a federal judge to throw out the felony charges against him, asserting that the Department of Justice violated his rights by pursuing charges against him on President Trump’s orders.
A federal appeals court Monday all but cleared the way for President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon. A three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2 to 1 to fully stay a district court order that prevented Trump from sending federalized troops into the city over the […]
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Friday to stay a lower court order barring his attempted military deployment in Chicago. The stay application marks the first time that a block to Trump’s troop deployments has reached the Supreme Court.
The Arizona Supreme Court dismissed a Republican lawsuit challenging the state’s 2023 Election Procedure Manual (EPM), citing the “need for clarity in upcoming elections.”
A three-judge federal appeals court panel Thursday rejected President Trump’s request that it overturn a lower court ruling barring his attempted military deployment in Chicago.
People Not Politicians Missouri, the group behind a ballot measure that would let voters veto the GOP-controlled legislature’s new gerrymandered congressional map, is laughing off a federal lawsuit filed to block their efforts.
Missouri state officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at blocking voters’ efforts to invoke their constitutional right to veto the state legislature’s new gerrymandered congressional map.