Republican elected officials and the richest man in the world have embraced rank nativism in the wake of a federal district judge’s decision to block the central pillar of the Trump Administration’s scheme to prosecute the vanishingly few examples of noncitizen voting.
America’s system of electoral redistricting has never been perfect for ensuring that maps are drawn to benefit voters, not politicians or parties. But over the past year, conservatives have radically transformed it into virtually unrecognizable terrain perhaps most closely resembling a burn scar — the term for the scorched land left behind after a wildfire. […]
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit seeking to block certain U.S. citizens living abroad from voting in Nebraska, expanding the GOP’s multi-state campaign against overseas voters.
A federal judge blocked multiple Justice Department subpoenas against top Minnesota Democratic leaders, including Gov. Tim Walz, ruling they were meant to “harass, coerce, and retaliate” against those who opposed President Trump’s aggressive immigration efforts across the state earlier this year.
A federal judge in Washington D.C. blocked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using its citizenship database to remove voters from registration rolls, striking a significant blow against President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional attempt to take control of federal elections.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ law that criminalizes helping more than six voters cast ballots. The decision leaves the law in effect and means that individuals in seven states are barred from suing to enforce a provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) aimed at protecting voters with disabilities or who face language barriers.
A federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking Maryland’s statewide, unredacted voter registration list, dealing another blow to President Trump and the department’s sweeping campaign to obtain voter data from the states.
The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on mail voting is heating up. And Democracy Docket is covering it more closely than any other news outlet.
Republicans sued two of Georgia’s largest counties over local policies that help voters return absentee ballots, escalating the party’s campaign to restrict voting access in the battleground state ahead of the midterm elections.
Arizona judges blocked a lower court order that took election duties away from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and assigned them to county Recorder Justin Heap, an election denier who has pushed conspiracy theories about voting in the state.