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On Thursday, May 4, a federal judge struck down part of a Kansas voter suppression law that prohibited individuals or organizations from sending personalized, early mail-in ballot applications to registered Kansas voters.
On Monday, May 1, several voting rights groups filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s voter registration policy for those with prior felony convictions.
On Monday, May 1, Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr (D), the state’s first openly transgender lawmaker and four of her constituents from Missoula County, Montana filed a lawsuit challenging her censure by the Republican-controlled Montana Legislature.
On Friday, April 28, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued a 5-2 opinion upholding the state’s felony disenfranchisement law and concluding that it does not violate the Equal Protection, Free Elections or Property Qualification clauses of the North Carolina Constitution.
On Friday, April 28, the new GOP majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court issued a 5-2 decision overturning the court’s own decision in Holmes v. Moore.
On Friday, April 28, the new Republican majority of the North Carolina Supreme Court issued a 5-2 party-line opinion overturning its prior decisions in Harper v. Hall, a previously decided redistricting case challenging the state’s congressional and legislative maps drawn with 2020 census data.
On Wednesday, April 26, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit that challenged Alabama’s felony disenfranchisement scheme.
On Tuesday, April 25, the Board of Supervisors in Cochise County , Arizona voted 2-1 to hire Bob Bartelsmeyer as an election director, selecting an individual who spread false claims about voting to run the county’s elections.
On Wednesday, April 26, the League of Women Voters of Florida and the Florida State Conference of the NAACP filed a lawsuit against Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd (R) challenging the state’s voter registration application.
On Monday, April 24, three Jackson, Mississippi residents filed a lawsuit challenging a recently enacted law, House Bill 1020, that targets Jackson’s majority-Black population.