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President Joe Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill that would add 63 new federal judges over the next decade, explaining that the bill “fails to resolve key questions” about the allocation of judges and senior status judges.
The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s 235th judge to a lifetime appointment on Friday evening, which would surpass the number of judicial vacancies that President-elect Donald Trump filled during his first term.
A number of Trump nominees and staff picks have had a direct hand in some of the most consequential legal efforts to disenfranchise voters in the past year.
The right-wing lawyer and former FEC commissioner lays out a potential Trump admin plan to disenfranchise voters.
Trump tapped Dhillon as the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights.
Bondi has a long history of supporting Trump’s election conspiracies and radical agenda.
The immigration hardliner also has a rich history of trying to disenfranchise voters.
Democracy is a top issue on the minds of voters in this election, primarily driven by Democratic voters, according to an NBC News exit poll released this evening.
A federal judge rejected Republican state officials’ request to block President Joe Biden’s executive order that expanded voting access.
Republican officials in Florida, Ohio and Texas sued President Joe’s Biden administration this week, alleging that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is denying them access to citizenship records needed to maintain their voter rolls.