The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals.
With fewer than 60 lawyers, we are currently litigating 63 voting and election cases in 30 states — a number that will almost certainly rise in the weeks to come.
A new report from pro-voting groups Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter paints a stark picture of what could happen if the court sides with plaintiffs seeking to weaken the core provision.
A three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a lower court order that blocked President Trump’s attempt to federalize 200 Oregon National Guard troops for deployment in Portland. However, deployments in the state remain blocked.
At U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments Wednesday, the justices signaled they’re wary of making it significantly easier to challenge election laws, as a Republican member of Congress and his allies are urging them to do.
Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two felony charges stemming from a politically driven indictment brought by one of President Trump’s former personal attorneys amid Trump’s public pressure campaign on the Justice Department.
The pro-voting groups submitted two alternative maps for the court to consider.
The Republican Party’s leading mapmaker took the stand Tuesday in a federal hearing to determine whether Texas can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in the 2026 election.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a GOP-backed case that could lead to a dramatic increase in lawsuits challenging state election laws.