EL PASO, TEXAS — A Texas Democrat testified in federal court Thursday that Republican leadership used minority communities as pawns when they redrew the state’s congressional map this summer at the request of President Donald Trump. State Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas) told the court the latest Texas redistricting process was a bad faith, secretive effort […]
A federal court began a hearing in a case here Wednesday to decide whether Texas can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterms.
The ruling marks a departure by SCOTUS from other cases challenging Trump’s dismissal of leaders in independent agencies
A federal judge ruled that Sigal Chattah, a Trump loyalist and appointee, has been unlawfully serving as Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada since late July.
A judge Tuesday issued an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Trump while finding that the U.S. government impermissibly violated the First Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian student activists for deportation.
Advocacy groups are suing to block the Trump administration’s creation of vast, centralized databases of Americans’ personal information for purging voter rolls and launching criminal investigations.
Top law enforcement officials in Oregon said in court filings Monday that Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Portland was unwarranted and could undermine public safety by provoking larger protests.
At Democracy Docket, we pride ourselves on monitoring the voting and democracy landscape — and especially the right’s never-ending effort to undermine fair elections — more closely than just about anyone else.
The Department of Justice submitted a sweeping petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to uphold President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order.
President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm election by pressuring states to create more Republican congressional seats will face a major test in a federal courtroom in El Paso, Texas starting Wednesday, as a panel of judges considers whether to block the state’s new gerrymandered map.
