The Latest: Trump signs bill to release the Epstein files after months of political pressure
Read full article: The Latest: Trump signs bill to release the Epstein files after months of political pressurePresident Donald Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following a yearslong push by survivors of Epstein’s abuse for a public reckoning.
Trump's congressional gerrymandering push is getting complicated for the GOP
Read full article: Trump's congressional gerrymandering push is getting complicated for the GOPPresident Donald Trump is finding that redistricting his way to a GOP House majority in next year's midterms is a lot harder than it sounds.
Michigan dismissal highlights the challenges in prosecuting cases against Trump's 2020 fake electors
Read full article: Michigan dismissal highlights the challenges in prosecuting cases against Trump's 2020 fake electorsThe dismissal of fraud charges against 15 Michigan Republicans is the latest and most dramatic setback in the cases against the fake electors who were part of President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Trump vows to change how elections are run. The US Constitution doesn't give him that power
Read full article: Trump vows to change how elections are run. The US Constitution doesn't give him that powerPresident Donald Trump is vowing more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own.
Judge limits a small part of a court order blocking Trump's election overhaul as lawsuits continue
Read full article: Judge limits a small part of a court order blocking Trump's election overhaul as lawsuits continueA federal judge has modified part of a previous ruling that blocked much of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to overhaul elections in the U.S. The minor change affects just one aspect of a preliminary injunction that U.S. District Court Judge Denise J.
Is Elon Musk skirting election law in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race?
Read full article: Is Elon Musk skirting election law in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race?Billionaire Elon Musk’s unprecedented efforts to bolster the conservative candidate in next week’s hotly contested Wisconsin Supreme Court race have run into legal hot water amid accusations that he had broken state election law.
Trump signed an order to reshape how elections in the US are run. Is it constitutional?
Read full article: Trump signed an order to reshape how elections in the US are run. Is it constitutional?Election officials, state attorneys general and legal experts say President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to reshape election processes throughout the U.S. will likely face legal challenges for violating the Constitution.
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Trump's election lawsuits plagued by elementary errors
Read full article: Trump's election lawsuits plagued by elementary errors(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)When President Donald Trump sends lawyers to court, it seems he’s not sending his best. Fighting to challenge an election he lost to President-elect Joe Biden, Trump has launched a barrage of lawsuits across the country. They also argued a debunked conspiracy theory that Venezuela could have hacked election results through machines used by local authorities. “I’ve never seen an election lawyer handle a case as poorly as Giuliani has,” Hasen said. An attachment to the filing, in citing state election law, references “only one pole watcher” instead of “poll watcher.”Experts say Trump has almost no chance of reversing his loss.
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Trump's election lawsuits plagued by elementary errors
Read full article: Trump's election lawsuits plagued by elementary errors(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)When President Donald Trump sends lawyers to court, it seems he’s not sending his best. Fighting to challenge an election he lost to President-elect Joe Biden, Trump has launched a barrage of lawsuits across the country. They also argued a debunked conspiracy theory that Venezuela could have hacked election results through machines used by local authorities. “I’ve never seen an election lawyer handle a case as poorly as Giuliani has,” Hasen said. An attachment to the filing, in citing state election law, references “only one pole watcher” instead of “poll watcher.”Experts say Trump has almost no chance of reversing his loss.
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California GOP considers adding more disputed ballot boxes
Read full article: California GOP considers adding more disputed ballot boxesThey are not as secure as government drop boxes, which are put in well-lighted places and are tamper-proof,” he said. The California GOP drop boxes are a new version of “vote harvesting," which is legal in California and allows party volunteers to collect multiple ballots and deliver them to election officials. Some of the party's drop boxes were labeled as “official,” even though they are not authorized by county election officials. Jessica Levinson, an election law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles said labeling the boxes official clearly was illegal. “I'm assuming they decided on less labor-intensive ways of trying to get at it,” he said of the Republican drop boxes.

NC court strikes down state legislative districts as unconstitutional
Read full article: NC court strikes down state legislative districts as unconstitutionalPeople gather in in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as decisions are handed down in Washington, DC. (CNN) - A state court in North Carolina unanimously struck down Republican-led efforts to maintain state legislative districts on Tuesday, holding that they amount to unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders that violate the state's Constitution. Now, in North Carolina, a top Republican state legislative leader told local reporters in a statement that the GOP will not appeal the state court's ruling against state House and Senate districts there. While the US Supreme Court recently declined to step in to decide a separate challenge to federal maps in the state, the North Carolina court observed that provisions of state constitutions "could provide standards and guidance for state courts to apply." The North Carolina Democratic Party, registered Democratic voters and Common Cause brought the lawsuit last year.

Federal Election Commission may sit out 2020 elections
Read full article: Federal Election Commission may sit out 2020 electionsWASHINGTON, D.C. - The federal agency charged with policing violations of campaign finance laws just lost its power to enforce those laws as the country heads into the 2020 elections. The Federal Election Commission will have just three members following the departure of Matthew Petersen, who announced on Monday that he will resign his commission post August 31. Federal law requires four or more commissioners to approve new rules or take actions to punish those who violate election law. The agency was already "dysfunctional," Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California at Irvine, wrote on Twitter. Trump nominated Texas lawyer Trey Trainor to the commission in 2017, but the Senate has not acted on his nomination.
