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A federal appeals court blocked North Carolina from beginning ballot curing as part of Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin’s effort to overturn the results from the state’s 2024 Supreme Court race.
Mississippi’s secretary of state asked SCOTUS to weigh in on the state’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from gutting an independent agency tasked with protecting people from financial fraud.
A federal judge Thursday extended restrictions on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency accessing Americans’ personal data held by the Social Security Administration.
A three-judge panel for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again unanimously rejected a Trump administration request to overturn a lower-court order requiring it to secure the freedom of a Maryland man it erroneously sent to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
The latest update in the ongoing legal saga of the 2024 North Carolina state Supreme Court election.
An independent federal agency is going forward with President Donald Trump’s sweeping elections executive order despite a barrage of lawsuits challenging it as an assault on states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections.
The latest filing boosts Riggs’ chances of prevailing in the ongoing election saga.
A federal judge Wednesday said he’d found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court for showing “a willful disregard” toward his March 15 orders requiring it return to the U.S. the hundreds of Venezuelan migrants it sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), an 18th century wartime law.
Meanwhile, Jefferson Griffin could be bolstered by a separate GOP scheme to gain power over elections.