In a couple of earlier posts, here and here, I explained the mix of politics and Voting Rights Act issues involved in the Louisiana v. Callais case. The specific issue is whether LA engaged in ...

Horrifying and dangerous: ...

A senior official in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group on Thursday, according to an email sent by the group. The virtual meeting was to ...

Politico: One year after his criminal conviction in the Manhattan hush money case, Donald Trump is still fighting to shed his felon status. The president’s personal lawyers appeared before a federal ...

NPR: The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding an unprecedented amount of election data from at least one state, according to documents obtained by NPR, as the DOJ transformed by the Trump ...

NYT: When Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democrat and nonvoting delegate for Washington, D.C., attended a recent gala to accept an award honoring her decades-long career in Congress, she ...

Rick H. linked to the story earlier, but one specific holding from today’s decision in RNC v. EVA: The Defendant-Intervenors and the State (collectively, the “Appellants”) argue that the trial court ...

This afternoon a state appellate panel in Albany is hearing a case to reinstate a good government group lawsuit against the state Board of Elections for wrongly allowing new voting machines that ...

AP: Facing a legislature dominated by Democrats, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo stood before Nevada lawmakers earlier this year with a message that some did not expect to go far: “Set aside partisan ...

NYT: The Justice Department has closed about half of its open investigations into bribery by U.S. businesses overseas, but plans to initiate prosecutions to more narrowly focus on misconduct that ...

Michigan Republicans are suing the battleground state’s top elections executive over access to election training materials. The lawsuit filed Thursday is the latest escalation in a brewing dispute ...

WaPo: A Wisconsin nonprofit organization focused on fighting for fair elections has filed a legal complaint alleging that billionaire Elon Musk illegally bribed voters by giving out cash prizes this ...