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Missouri’s Supreme Court is already eyeing legal challenges to the state’s citizen-led redistricting referendum case – even before the first judge has had a chance to rule – warning lower courts not to dawdle.
A federal judge in Massachusetts Tuesday issued another order blocking the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting and his attempt to create a national voter registration list before the midterm elections. District Judge Indira Talwani agreed with a coalition of voting-rights groups led by the League […]
A Texas county told the state Supreme Court it can change its voting maps between its primary and November general election — doubling down on what pro-voting plaintiffs warn could be replicated across the state to undermine the will of the voters.
In a win for voters, appeals court judges upheld a lower court ruling that permanently blocked a Republican-backed South Dakota law that would have made it harder for citizens to put new laws or constitutional changes directly on the ballot.
The Ninth Circuit ruled to uphold previously blocked voting laws in Arizona that will go into effect in time for the state’s midterm general election, making it harder for some voters to cast ballots.
It may still feel like mid summer — but we’re into the final stretch before a set of contests that could help determine the fate of our democracy.
“Measure B seeks to create a whole new electoral system that would require new voter rolls and re-registration of existing voters,” wrote the judge.
After 21 federal district courts and one federal appeals court panel slapped down the Trump administration’s attempt to grab states’ unredacted voter rolls, the Justice Department’s response has been remarkably consistent: we understand civil rights-era voting law better than all these judges. The department keeps advancing essentially the same legal theory from courthouse to courthouse […]
With the clock ticking toward a Sept. 8 deadline for Missouri courts to order changes to the November ballot, Republicans are reusing tried-and-true delay tactics in an attempt to kill a voter referendum on the GOP’s latest gerrymander.
If voters were to approve the measure, it would allow Democrats to redraw Maryland’s congressional map to counter recent GOP gerrymanders ahead of the 2028 presidential election.