A radical legal challenge to Maryland’s election administration will go before the 4th Circuit after right-wing groups appealed the dismissal of their case. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ri…

'The Republican party starts radicalizing against democracy at the state level before Donald Trump. Because if [they] hadn't...they wouldn't have been so open to Trump and the kind of authoritarian message he was putting.' - Ari Berman

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Voters in South Carolina and Louisiana will now vote under maps deemed unlawful this fall, highlighting how the timing of the court’s ruling is almost as important as the opinion itself.
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BREAKING: Miami City Commission votes to approve a legal agreement with pro-voter organizations and implement new commission districts after the previous map was struck down for racial gerrymandering.
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NEW: Senate Democrats, led by Richard Blumenthal, introduce a bill to require Supreme Court justices to provide written explanations and a vote breakdown for decisions on their emergency docket, also known as shadow docket.
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NEW: Texas voters file a lawsuit alleging that a unique number assigned to each ballot by the state's voting software makes their ballots able to be identified by others, violating their right to vote in secret.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to take up a case regarding whether voters can discard their previously submitted absentee ballots and cast a new one. Instead, the case will first be reviewed by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
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Republicans are already preparing to contest the outcome of the 2024 election. Marc E. Elias breaks down why the peaceful transfer of power may soon be out of reach.

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NEW: Congressional Republicans introduce legislation to overturn a Washington, D.C. law that allows noncitizens to vote in local elections races such as mayor and council. Federal law prohibits noncitizen voting in federal elections.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/co…

PILF, a right-wing legal group, has filed lawsuits in states exempt from the National Voter Registration Act in an attempt to gain access to voter registration records ahead of the 2024 election. Read more below.
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Ohio Republican lawmakers won't pass special legislation to allow President Joe Biden to be on the state's general election ballot this fall. But a non-legislative solution may fix the issue.
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An Arizona court will hold a hearing today in a lawsuit challenging the state's 2023 Election Procedures Manual. Pro-voting groups have intervened to defend the manual.
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NEW: In a case alleging that Tennessee's congressional map is racially gerrymandered, the state notified a federal court of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision this morning that raised the standards to prove racial unfairness claims.
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In a concurring opinion, Justice Thomas writes: 'In my view, the Court has no power to decide these types of claims. Drawing political districts is a task for politicians, not federal judges. There are no judicially manageable standards for resolving claims about districting...'

A lower court found that the GOP-controlled South Carolina Legislature violated the 14th Amendment by intentionally moving 30,000+ Black voters out of the 1st Congressional District, currently held by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R).

The previously blocked map will remain in place.

BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules South Carolina's congressional map is not a racial gerrymander, reversing a lower court decision that struck down the map. The Court also makes it harder to fight racially unfair maps in the future.
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