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A group of civil rights organizations including the NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law have asked a federal court to protect voters’ personal information after the FBI seized ballots and other election materials during a raid on a Fulton County, Georgia election hub last month.
Voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit challenging Ohio’s sweeping new voter purge law.
In a big win for Virginia Democrats’ efforts to counter President Donald Trump’s GOP gerrymanders in other states, the Virginia Supreme Court said the state can hold its special election on the redistricting plan.
After a New York court struck down the state’s current 11th Congressional District for diluting the voting power of Black and Latino residents, U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to freeze the decision.
The FBI seizure of 2020 election records last month was “a serious attempt to overturn and to take control of elections in Fulton County, Georgia,” Robb Pitts, the chair of the county board, said Thursday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) First Amendment rights by moving to strip him of his retired military rank for reminding troops in a video last year that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
With the midterm elections on the horizon, a Missouri court held a hearing in a lawsuit that could determine whether a gerrymandered congressional map favoring the Republican Party will be in effect for the 2026 race.
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.