Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Is Being Sued by One of Its Commissioners
Members of Donald Trump’s election integrity commission meet on September 12 in Manchester, New Hampshire.Holly Ramer/AP Fifteen lawsuits have been filed against President Donald Trump’s controversial “election integrity” commission in federal and state court for allegedly violating a wide range of transparency and privacy laws. The latest one comes from one of the commission’s own members.…
How Donald Trump Is Remaking the Federal Courts in His Own Image
Now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch speaks as President Donald Trump looks on during an April ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa/AP When Donald Trump took office, he inherited more than 100 federal judicial vacancies. It was a nearly unprecedented number, roughly twice the number that President Barack Obama inherited…
Voting Rights Could Be the Biggest Winner in Tuesday’s Democratic Victories
Ralph Northam and his wife, Pam, vote in Norfolk, Virginia, on Tuesday.Steve Helber/AP Brianna Ross of Richmond, Virginia, lost her right to vote at 19 when she received a felony conviction for stealing diapers for her newborn son. Now 53, she voted for the first time in her life in Virginia’s statewide elections yesterday. “I…
Virginia Votes on Tuesday. Here Are 3 Ways Ed Gillespie Wants to Make That Harder.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie debates Democratic challenger Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam at the University of Virginia-Wise on October 9, 2017.(AP/Steve Helber) The candidates in the hotly contested Virginia governor’s race, Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam, are in the final stages of getting out the vote for Tuesday’s election. But Gillespie hasn’t always…
Indiana Sued Over Its Aggressive New Voter Purge Program
People line up to vote in Evansville, Indiana, on November 3, 2015. Mike Lawrence/Courier & Press via AP A lawsuit is seeking to block an aggressive new effort by the state of Indiana to purge voters from its rolls. If it succeeds, it would deter other states from following suit. But if it fails, these states could…
Trump Election Commission Has Ground to a Halt, Says Republican Member
Sign outside the room for the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in Washington, DC, July 2017.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP The work of President Donald Trump’s controversial election integrity commission has ground to a halt in recent weeks as the commission faces a barrage of lawsuits, according to one of its Republican…