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Republicans asked a federal judge Tuesday to allow them to intervene in a lawsuit against Florida’s new requirement that voters prove their citizenship before they can cast a ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
RNC wants to defend Florida’s proof-of-citizenship voting requirementThe party claimed their candidates would be harmed if the voting restriction were blocked.www.democracydocket.comPODCAST: One of the best ways to stay up to date about what is happening to democracy is to listen to my Defending Democracy podcast. Available on Spotify or wherever you listen. open.spotify.com/show/30Bsx0J...
Defending Democracy with Marc EliasPodcast · Democracy Docket · Every week, election lawyer Marc Elias interviews lawmakers, policy leaders and changemakers about the problems facing our democracy and how we fix them.open.spotify.comMY LATEST: After a string of humiliating defeats in court, the DOJ asked the Supreme Court in an emergency appeal to let it seize control of mail voting ahead of the midterms. This case will be considered on the so-called shadow docket. newsletters.democracydocket.com/democracy-is...
Democracy is on the Supreme Court's shadow docketnewsletters.democracydocket.com🚨BREAKING EPISODE: Trump's DOJ has filed an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court to let his mail voting executive order take effect before the midterms — a move that could let the administration decide who gets a mail ballot and who doesn't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBI7...
BREAKING: Trump's DOJ asks Supreme Court to Let Him Block Your Mail BallotYouTube video by Democracy Docketwww.youtube.comElection Day is less than 100 days away. Donald Trump is deeply unpopular and the GOP is not acting like a party trying to persuade voters to support its candidates — because it isn’t. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
The GOP has a plan to undermine free and fair elections. We must stop themThe GOP is not acting like a party trying to persuade voters to support its candidates — because it isn’t.www.democracydocket.comU.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is not willing to nix the Senate filibuster to pass President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Thune rejects Trump’s calls to nix the filibuster and Senate recess“We could stay here until Christmas,” Thune said, according to multiple reporters at the Senate House. “The Democrats aren’t voting for this, I’m just telling you. And Republicans are not getting rid ...www.democracydocket.com🚨BREAKING: In a voting rights victory, the Kansas Court of Appeals Monday rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) emergency bid to reinstate a rule that could have thrown out lawfully cast mail ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Kansas court rejects last-minute GOP bid to toss late-arriving mail ballotsThe ruling keeps Kansas’ mail ballot grace period in place for the August primary. That means voters’ ballots can still count if they are postmarked by Election Day but received up to three days after...www.democracydocket.com🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court to allow President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting to go into effect before the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ asks Supreme Court to greenlight anti-mail voting order before midtermsRead more here.www.democracydocket.comMy latest piece was originally written for Democracy Docket members. They decided to share this one with everyone because of the stakes for this election. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
The GOP has a plan to undermine free and fair elections. We must stop themThe GOP is not acting like a party trying to persuade voters to support its candidates — because it isn’t.www.democracydocket.comMUST READ: Records reviewed by Democracy Docket reveal no consistent standard used by DOJ for deciding which states have met the department’s demands and which should be sued. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ said some states ‘cooperated’ with voter roll grab by providing public information. It sued other states for doing the sameRecords reviewed by Democracy Docket reveal no consistent standard used by DOJ for deciding which states have met the department’s demands and which should be sued.www.democracydocket.comPresident Donald Trump posted a rambling paragraph to his social media platform Monday, demanding that U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) get rid of the filibuster for a “full and deep throated SAVE AMERICA ACT.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump demands an end to the filibuster to pass the SAVE America ActThe Save America Act does not have enough votes to pass in the Senate. That hasn't stopped President Donald Trump from calling for its passage and against established legislative safeguards, like the ...www.democracydocket.comDemocracy Docket did it's Supreme Court wrap up with: Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama; and Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project. youtu.be/NtlS4pAMKmU?...
Jay WillisA pretty clean illustration of how SCOTUSblog's editorial coverage has shifted since its merger with a conservative media outlet: At its big-ticket Supreme Court term preview conference in the fall, the marquee event is...a panel featuring the GCs of Boeing, TD Bank, and ExxonMobil
