The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado and Hawaii Thursday in the latest lawsuits by the administration seeking to force states to hand over their unredacted voter rolls.
Even many Republican-led states are resisting the Trump administration’s sweeping demands for unredacted voter records.
More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday.
Eric Neff briefly represented former Overstock CEO and conspiracy theorist Patrick Byrne.
A federal judge Monday dismissed Missouri Republicans’ attempt to stop voters from pursuing a referendum against the state’s newly gerrymandered congressional map.
It wasn’t the week’s biggest news. But on Friday, perhaps my favorite recent Democracy Docket story offered the kind of deep, granular reporting, exposing the people and institutions quietly leading Trump’s war on voting, that you won’t find anywhere else.
Indiana has rapidly become the latest flashpoint in the GOP’s national push to engineer aggressive mid-decade gerrymanders. Few states illustrate the immense costs to voters and how far lawmakers are willing to go to appease President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued six more states this week in its escalating effort to force election officials to hand over unredacted voter information. State election leaders say the DOJ’s sweeping demand for voters’ names, addresses, birth dates and identification numbers threatens their personal privacy, state sovereignty and the security of U.S. elections.
Voting advocates are signaling that they may soon ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their long-running challenge to Texas’s sweeping voter-suppression law, S.B. 1, under Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act.
“Harmeet Dhillon has served notice she is coming for the Fulton County ballots,” Mitchell posted on X Thursday. “Praying it happens today.”