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Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded that officials in Fulton County, Georgia, hand over ballots and other election records from the 2020 presidential vote in an attempt to revive President Trump’s fraudulent claims that the election was stolen.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado and Hawaii Thursday in the latest lawsuits by the administration seeking to force states to hand over their unredacted voter rolls.
For the second time in a week, a federal grand jury refused the Justice Department’s attempt to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on alleged mortgage fraud charges.
Even many Republican-led states are resisting the Trump administration’s sweeping demands for unredacted voter records.
Late Update, 5:30PM ET: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from ICE custody and detention according to his attorney. A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man whose arrest in Maryland, illegal removal to El Salvador and return to U.S. immigration detention became a flashpoint in President Donald […]
A federal judge Wednesday again attempted to prevent President Trump from keeping hundreds of federalized California National Guard members stationed in Los Angeles.
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that could allow the court’s conservatives to supercharge President Trump’s effort to assert absolute control over agencies that regulate the economy, the stock market, federal campaign finance and communications.
It wasn’t the week’s biggest news. But on Friday, perhaps my favorite recent Democracy Docket story offered the kind of deep, granular reporting, exposing the people and institutions quietly leading Trump’s war on voting, that you won’t find anywhere else.
A Utah judge refused to halt her landmark ruling that struck down the GOP-led legislature’s gerrymander.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued six more states this week in its escalating effort to force election officials to hand over unredacted voter information. State election leaders say the DOJ’s sweeping demand for voters’ names, addresses, birth dates and identification numbers threatens their personal privacy, state sovereignty and the security of U.S. elections.