Federal judges have toppled embattled Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan in a ruling accusing her of ignoring court orders and a separate move aimed at stripping her of her self-proclaimed U.S. attorney title.
From California to Virginia, this was a good week for voting rights and fair elections. And we kept you up to date on all of it.
President Donald Trump’s redistricting arms race is wreaking havoc across the country, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. But in Missouri, the fight has grown into something that threatens to cut democracy to the bone.
The Justice Department sued Virginia for refusing to hand over unredacted voter registration data, making it the 24th state targeted in a sweeping federal campaign that courts have already begun to shut down.
Republicans are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and block California’s voter-approved congressional map after a federal court firmly rejected their challenge.
A federal court dismissed the Trump Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking access to California’s full voter registration database, warning that the government’s bid for the voter records “threatens the right to vote which is the cornerstone of American democracy.”
With every passing day, experts say, it’ll get harder for more Republican-led states to heed Trump’s redistricting call.
A federal judge in Oregon made the first ruling in one of the lawsuits the Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched against 23 states and Washington D.C., reportedly refusing to grant their demand for the state’s unredacted voter registration records.
A federal court ruled against a Republican challenge to California’s redistricting plan, rejecting the GOP claim that the state had engaged in illegal racial gerrymandering when drawing up its new congressional map.
Any candidate for federal office may challenge election laws governing their election, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision Wednesday, potentially triggering a deluge of litigation over the counting and certifying of results.