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Democratic attorneys general in 19 states argued in a new lawsuit against President Donald Trump Thursday that his broad elections executive order violates the Constitution by attempting to wrest control over elections from the states.
The Democratic Party is suing President Donald Trump over his sweeping executive order last week that attempted to wrest control of elections from the states.
A federal judge ruled Monday that Pennsylvania must count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots, finding that a previous law rejecting such ballots violated the First and 14th Amendments.
It’s the fifth Biden-era DOJ pro-voting lawsuit that’s been dropped under President Donald Trump.
Paul, Weiss doesn’t seem to want to talk about the future of its Center to Combat Hate after it struck a deal to get Trump’s executive order against the company lifted.
A federal appeals court granted Trump’s request to lift lower-court rulings that required him to reinstate two wrongfully dismissed members of independent federal agencies.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) joined Democracy Docket Founder Marc Elias to discuss President Donald Trump’s latest executive order targeting elections.
A three-judge panel Wednesday with a 2-1 vote declined the Department of Justice’s request to lift a lower-court order preventing the Trump administration from using an 18th century wartime law to deport people to a Salvadoran hard labor prison without due process.
After President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that experts said could potentially disenfranchise millions, Democratic election officials and voting rights advocates swiftly vowed to fight it.
SCOTUS heard oral argument in a pivotal Louisiana redistricting case that could upend the VRA.